Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119395 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Economics of Security Working Paper No. 69
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper empirically investigates whether globalization can improve women's rights. Using panel data from 150 countries over the 1981-2008 period, I find that social globalization positively affects women's economic and social rights. When controlling for social globalization however, economic globalization does not have any effect on women's rights. Despite the positive effect of (social) globalization on women's standing in a country, (marginalized) foreign women, proxied with inflows of human trafficking, are not beneficiaries of such 'female-friendly' globalization effects.
Subjects: 
economic and social globalization
women¿s rights
human trafficking
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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