The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries … of trade liberalization across industries, they propose a stronger identifying strategy. The authors explore the recent … 1990s. These swings in trade policy comprise broken trends in trade reforms that they can compare with observed trends in …

This paper characterizes the trade-off between the income gains and the inequality costs of trade using survey data for … gains and the inequality costs of trade liberalization are quantified and the trade-offs between them are assessed using an … average income losses in nine countries. Across countries in the sample, the gains from trade are 1.9 percent of real …

This paper explores an empirical methodology to assess the impacts of trade reforms on household behavior in developing … assessment of trade policy …