World Development
Volume 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1862-1877

Effects of Free Trade on Women and Immigrants: CAFTA and the Rural Dominican Republic (Article)

Filipski M.* , Edward Taylor J. , Msangi S.
  • a University of California, Davis, United States
  • b University of California, Davis, United States
  • c International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States

Abstract

We construct a disaggregated rural economywide model with a focus on gender and immigration as well as on the allocation of time to wage work, household production activities, and housework (reproduction). We use this model to simulate the impacts of the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) on rural incomes and welfare in the Dominican Republic. We find that elimination of agricultural import tariffs hurts both agricultural and non-agricultural households, via adverse factor-market effects, but impacts vary substantially by workers' gender and country of origin. Females and Haitian immigrants tend to fare better than Dominican males, and there are ramifications for both market and non-market activities. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

Author Keywords

General equilibrium models Haiti Central america and the caribbean Gender Dominican Republic Immigration

Index Keywords

welfare impact rural economy social impact wage free trade tariff structure immigrant Central America Dominican Republic Haiti immigration household income womens status
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.04.010
ISSN: 0305750X
Cited by: 6
Original Language: English