The impact of the trade liberalization on the women work: Comparative analyzes between the South Africa and the Ethiopia with an impact of the general equilibrium calculable

Abstract

The effects of trade liberalization on female labor depend on a country′s socio-economic and employment sector characteristics. A Gender-aware computable general equilibrium model is applied to Ethiopia and South Africa from a comparative perspective. Tariff reduction results in opposite outcomes regarding gender-based wage and labor market participation inequalities in the two countries due to their structural differences in men′s and women′s employment.

Keywords

• South Africa
• Ethiopia
• gender
• trade
• CGE models