abstract: 'In this paper, we analyse the relationship between Chinese import

  competition and gendered labor market outcomes within the context of a

  developing country. To do this, we merge a rich manufacturing firm-level

  panel data set from Ethiopia with trade data covering the years

  1997-2010. Thus, we map out the effect of trade shocks from import

  surges on labor force participation and compensation, decomposed by

  gender. Results from the study show that rising import competition from

  China had a heterogeneous effect on female and male labor market

  outcomes. Import competition from China is associated with a negative

  and statistically significant effect on female employment, but not male

  employment. Looking at workers'' occupation, we find that for production

  workers import competition is adversely related with female employment

  outcomes while there is no statistically significant association with

  employment of administrative workers. For wage inequality, male wages in

  general are negatively associated with import competition, while we

  found no effect on female wages.'
affiliation: 'Afesorgbor, SK (Corresponding Author), Univ Guelph, Dept Food Agr \&
  Resource Econ, Guelph, ON, Canada.

  Afesorgbor, SK (Corresponding Author), Environm Dev EfD Initiat, Accra, Ghana.

  Afesorgbor, Sylvanus Kwaku, Univ Guelph, Dept Food Agr \& Resource Econ, Guelph,
  ON, Canada.

  Afesorgbor, Sylvanus Kwaku, Environm Dev EfD Initiat, Accra, Ghana.

  Acquah, Ruby Elorm, Univ Sussex, Business Sch, Brighton, England.

  Ayele, Yohannes, Overseas Dev Inst, London, England.'
author: Afesorgbor, Sylvanus Kwaku and Acquah, Ruby Elorm and Ayele, Yohannes
author-email: safesorg@uoguelph.ca
author_list:
- family: Afesorgbor
  given: Sylvanus Kwaku
- family: Acquah
  given: Ruby Elorm
- family: Ayele
  given: Yohannes
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1093/jae/ejac026
earlyaccessdate: NOV 2022
eissn: 1464-3723
files: []
issn: 0963-8024
journal: JOURNAL OF AFRICAN ECONOMIES
keywords: import competition; gender; employment; wages; Ethiopia; China
keywords-plus: IMPACT; TRADE; WOMEN; GROWTH; GAP
language: English
month: 2022 NOV 22
number-of-cited-references: '29'
papis_id: a0c40e6007fc18360c887484746484bf
ref: Afesorgbor2022chineseimport
times-cited: '0'
title: 'Chinese Import Competition and Gendered Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from
  Ethiopian Firm-Level Data'
type: Article; Early Access
unique-id: WOS:000892386100001
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '4'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2022'