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Upstreamness, social upgrading and gender: Equal benefits for all? National Bank of Belgium, Working Paper No. 359

Gagliardi, Nicola and Mahy, Benoît and Rycx, François (2018) Upstreamness, social upgrading and gender: Equal benefits for all? National Bank of Belgium, Working Paper No. 359. [Working Paper]

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    Abstract

    This paper examines social upgrading related to firms’ participation in Global Value Chains (GVCs) from a developed countries’ perspective. Merging detailed matched employer-employee data relative to the Belgian manufacturing industry with unique information on firm-level upstreamness, we investigate whether workers on the upstream stage of GVCs benefit from higher wages. We also enrich our analysis with a gender dimension. Unconditional quantile regressions and decomposition methods reveal that firms’ upstreamness fosters workers’ social upgrading. Nevertheless, gains are found to be unequally shared among workers. Male top-earners are the main beneficiaries; whereas women, irrespective of their earnings, appear to be unfairly rewarded.

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    Item Type: Working Paper
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Social upgrading, global value chains, Wages, Gender, Developed countries
    Subjects for non-EU documents: Countries > Belgium
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > economic and financial affairs > business/private economic activity
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > social policy > general
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > National Bank of Belgium (Brussels) > Working Papers
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 02 Oct 2019 11:23
    Number of Pages: 41
    Last Modified: 02 Oct 2019 11:27
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/97549

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