Statistical Insight: men’s employment more dependent on trade than women’s

By oecdecoscope. Concerns are growing that globalisation may have created a few big winners at the expense of many losers. This has stimulated efforts to analyse how trade can be made  to Work for All, for example by focusing on the skills and occupations of affected workers. However, there has been less attention to the gender dimension of globalisation and global value chains, and in particular to whether they are having differing effects on men’s and women’s work. More...