Globalization Gender and Growth: Theory and Empirics
2010/06/15
研討會日期 : 2010-06-15
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Raymond Riezman
地點 : B110
演講者簡介 : Raymond Riezman got his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Minnesota in 1977. He is currently serving as Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Economics at The University of Iowa. His research field is international trade, political economy, and microeconomics.
演講摘要 : We consider the effect of globalisation on fertility, human capital and growth. We view globalisation as creating market opportunities for employment in less developed countries. We construct a specific model of household decision making, drawing on empirical observations in the development economics literature, and show that if the market opportunities produced by globalisation are for women then globalisation reduces fertility and increases human capital formation. If the opportunities are for men then fertility increases and human capital formation falls. We then show that globalisation that produces job opportunities for women increases growth and produces a better long run steady state than would prevail either without globalisation, or with globalisation that creates jobs only for men.
