Günseli Berik

My main area of research is the impact of globalization and economic development strategies on gender differences in wages and employment in manufacturing industry. The empirical focus of my research has been primarily Turkey and Taiwan. Currently, I am engaged in a comparative study of the effects of increased trade openness on gender wage discrimination in Korea and Taiwan. I am also investigating the role of union involvement in worker training in increasing the representation of women and racial minorities in skilled occupations in the United States.

The second theme in my recent research has been the relationship of child well-being to the patterns and level of women’s labor force participation. I examined the socioeconomic determinants of the relative well-being of girls in Turkey, and the consequences of banning the use of child labor in Pakistan’s soccer ball industry in 1997.

I am a jointly appointed faculty in the Economics Department and the Women’s Studies Program. In Economics I teach Principles of Economic Development; Gender and Third World Development; Feminist Economics; Political Economy of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender. In the Women’s Studies Program I teach Introduction to Women’s Studies, Introduction to Feminist Theory; and Gender and Contemporary Issues. Currently I am directing two Ph.D. dissertations on the impact of trade on gender wage inequalities in Japan and the United States, respectively.

My latest three publications are:

“Mature Export-led Growth and Gender Wage Inequality in Taiwan,” Feminist

Economics, Vol. 6, No.3, November 2000, pp. 1-26.

“Do Unions Help or Hinder Women in Training? The Case of Apprenticeship Programs in the U.S.” (with Cihan Bilginsoy), Industrial Relations, Vol. 39, No. 4, October 2000, pp. 600-624.

“Type of Work Matters: Women's Labor Force Participation and the Child Sex Ratio

in Turkey,” (with Cihan Bilginsoy), World Development, May 2000, pp. 861-878.

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