Skip to content

Webinar

Bargaining for trade

When exporting becomes detrimental to female wages

Add to calendar 2023-09-19 14:00 2023-09-19 15:00 Europe/Rome Bargaining for trade Online YYYY-MM-DD
Print

Scheduled dates

Sep 19 2023

14:00 - 15:00 CEST

Online

Organised by

Join Patrik Tingvall and Josefin Videnord in this webinar about gender wage gap in international trade.

In this presentation, the authors study exports and how the associated need for communication with foreign partners shapes the gender wage gap. Specifically, the study examines how the demand for interpersonal skills in trade and gender-specific differences in negotiations affects the remuneration of both men and women. The key finding is that the export of goods requiring intensive interpersonal contacts widens the gender wage gap. The negative wage effect is robust across various specifications and is most pronounced for domestic exporting firms, which mainly deal with external contractors. This result is ascribed to a male comparative advantage in bargaining—a skill that is especially needed and rewarded when serving foreign markets, where intense contracting problems frequently arise.

This event is co-organised with the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) and the Research Centre International Economics (FIW). 

The project that has led to this webinar has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101031139.

Any dissemination of the results of this event reflects only the presenters' views. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

Links

Partners

Related events

  • Read more

    Conference

    From 19 Oct 2023 14:00 CEST to 20 Oct 2023 16:30 CEST

    Hybrid, Refectory + Zoom

    Conference

    Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

    Fairness in the digital age

    Speakers:

    Oles Andriychuk (Newcastle University) Flavio Arzarello (META) Kostantina Bania (Geradin Partners / Brunel University) Bruno Basalisco (Copenhagen Economics) Brando Benifei (European Parliament) Cristina Caffarra (UCL / CEPR Competition RPN) Filomena Chirico (DG CNECT – European Commission) Giuseppe Colangelo (University of Basilicata) Lewis Crofts (Mlex) Lucrezio Figurelli (The Brattle Group) Michal Gal (University of Haifa) Roya Ghafele (Oxfirst) Hein Hobbelen (Bird&Bird) Prof. Daniel Innerarity (Chair AI&DEM, STG/EUI) Loulou Kenens (Austrian Federal Competition Authority) Markus Kicia (DG Grow – European Commission) Wolfgang Kopf (Deutsch Telekom) Thomas Kramler (DG Competition – European Commission) Evelina Kurgonaite (Fair Standard Alliance) Scott Marcus (Bruegel) Georgios Mavros (Google) Prof. Giorgio Monti (European Univeristy Institute / Tilburg University) Igor Nikolic (Nokia / European University Institute) Anna Renata Pisarkiewicz (European University Institute) Kadambari Prasad (Compass Lexecon) Maria Alessandra Rossi (European University Institute / Ud'A) Fiona Scott Morton (Yale University) Audrey Scozzaro Ferrazzini (Qualcomm) Mario Siragusa (Cleary Gottlieb) Nicola Tosini (NERA) Masako Wakui (Kyoto University)