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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2018
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
NBB Working Paper No. 359
Verlag: 
National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Zusammenfassung: 
This paper examines social upgrading related to firms' participation in Global Value Chains (GVCs) from a developed countries' perspective. Merging detailed matched employer-employee data relative to the Belgian manufacturing industry with unique information on firm-level upstreamness, we investigate whether workers on the upstream stage of GVCs benefit from higher wages. We also enrich our analysis with a gender dimension. Unconditional quantile regressions and decomposition methods reveal that firms' upstreamness fosters workers' social upgrading. Nevertheless, gains are found to be unequally shared among workers. Male top-earners are the main beneficiaries; whereas women, irrespective of their earnings, appear to be unfairly rewarded.
Schlagwörter: 
Social upgrading
Global value chains
Wages
Gender
Developed countries
JEL: 
F61
F66
J16
J31
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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