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Chile has built one of the largest networks of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the world. While Chile’s initial objectives in PTAs focused on trade expansion, their scope has expanded to cover new issues and go deeper to include various behind-the-border measures. Therefore, an assessment of the impact of Chile’s PTAs beyond their effects on trade flows is imperative and may shed light on the impact of PTAs in general. Specifically, this chapter assesses the impact of trade in services provisions on women’s labor force participation, particularly in the services sector. We argue that the inclusion of services provisions in PTAs can promote the development of the services sector in the economy as a whole, which should have a positive impact on women’s employment. In addition, we find that the impact of PTAs on women’s employment should be more pronounced than on men’s, which in turn should help to reduce gender gaps in this sector. The chapter draws on new data and advanced methodologies to test our hypotheses. The results of the chapter show that the inclusion of services has a positive impact on women’s employment. The estimation results suggest that the inclusion of deep services provisions in Chilean PTAs had a positive impact on women’s employment, especially in the services sector. For men, the results show a negative or insignificant effect. Finally, the analysis of the impact of these provisions on gender gaps shows that these agreements have contributed to reducing gender gaps in the labor force.
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