Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298488 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2023:6
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
We examine whether exposure to gender inequality at export destinations affects the gender wage gap in exporting firms. We motivate the analysis through a stylized model where wages depend on worker productivity, and men have a comparative advantage when trading with gender-unequal countries due to customer discrimination. Empirically, we use high-quality matched employer- employee data from Sweden and calculate how exposed firms are to country-level gender inequality through their export destinations. Although increased export intensity on average leads to a wider within-firm gender wage gap, the effect is entirely driven by trade with gender-unequal countries; we find no impact on the gender wage gap when firms increase their exports to countries with gender-equality levels close to that of Sweden. Female managers, who are most likely to interact with foreign customers, experience the most pronounced negative relative wage effects.
Subjects: 
Export
International trade
Gender wage gap
Gender inequality
Customer discrimination
Gender inequality index
JEL: 
J16
J31
F14
F16
F66
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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