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Trade Protection and Wages : Evidence from the Colombian Trade Reforms

Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Pavcnik, Nina - 2021

Starting in 1985, Colombia experienced gradual trade liberalization that culminated in the drastic tariff reductions of … Colombia exhibit remarkably less persistence over time than U.S. wage premiums. Similarly, measures of trade protection are … - in contrast to the U.S. - sectors with high import penetration in Colombia pay higher wages; nevertheless, regressions …

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Trade Reforms and Wage Inequiality in Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio; Goldberg, Pinelopi; Pavcnik, Nina - 2021

We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution …

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Who Gains from Trade Reform? Some Remaining Puzzles

Harrison, Ann E.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

This paper focuses on three unresolved issues with regard to the impact of trade reform. First, many studies linking trade reform to long run growth are surprisingly fragile. To illustrate the problems with this literature, we examine a popular measure of openness recently introduced by Sachs...

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The Effects of the Colombian Trade Liberalization on Urban Poverty

Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2012

We examine whether the Colombian trade reform can explain any of Colombia's decline in urban poverty between 1984 and …

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Trade, Skills, and Quality Upgrading : A Theory with Evidence from Colombia

Fieler, Ana Cecilia - 2014

plants in Colombia before the trade liberalization, simulate a counterfactual liberalization and compare the results to post … manufacturing increased, and the size of firms decreased in Colombia. In the model, lower tariffs lead importers and exporters to …

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The Response of the Informal Sector to Trade Liberalization

Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Pavcnik, Nina - 2021

1980's and 1990's, Brazil and Colombia, we examine the response of the informal sector to liberalization. In Brazil, we … find no evidence of a relationship between trade policy and informality. In Colombia, we do find evidence of such a …

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Trade Reforms and Market Selection : Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia

Eslava, Marcela - 2009

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use variation across sectors in tariff changes after the...

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Contracting and the Division of the Gains from Trade

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2015

, quantities and exporter-importer matches in Colombian import markets before and after the US-Colombia free trade agreement. US …

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Agricultural Interest Groups and the North American Free Trade Agreement

Orden, David - 2015

This paper evaluates the influence of diverse U.S. agricultural interest groups on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Under NAFTA, licenses and quotas that restricted agricultural trade between Mexico and the United States were converted to tariffs in January 1994 and all tariffs...

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International Rules and Institutions for Trade Policy

Staiger, Robert W. - 2021

What are the potential benefits from establishing international rules for the conduct of trade policy and how should these rules be designed? These questions are of central importance to the evolution of national trade policies in the post-war era, a period in which an elaborate system of...

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