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deals with the effects of openness to trade, foreign direct investment, and financial crises on average wages. Second, it … discusses the impact of exposure to world markets on the dispersion of wages by occupation, skill, and gender. Third, it …
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four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro …
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Using nationally representative, economywide data, this paper investigates the relative importance of trade-mandated effects on industry wage premia; industry and economywide skill premia; and employment flows in accounting for changes in the wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade...
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The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries … wages and wage inequality. After setting up unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, trends in wages, and trends …) has reduced wages, and (2) has increased wage inequality …
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Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors? The authors estimate private and public sector wage earnings using 1996 household survey data, while controlling for selectivity using Heckman's two stage approach. They find...
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information and communication technologies over the labor structure of the firm and wages. Thus, it assesses whether increasing …
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the wages of workers employed at heterogeneous firms. The analysis of the data at the firm-level confirms earlier findings … of a differential positive effect of trade liberalization on the average wages at exporting firms relative to non …-exporting firms. However, this analysis of average firm-level wages is incomplete along several dimensions. First, it cannot fully …
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market restrictions on wages and its spatial pattern. The empirical specification is derived from a general equilibrium model … that predicts that the adverse effects of land market restrictions on wages will be less in remote locations. For … sub-district. The results show that land restrictions reduce wages substantially, and this effect is smaller in remote …
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This paper focuses on the estimation of skill/industry premiums and labor force composition at the national and sector levels in seven East Asian countries with the objective of providing a comprehensive analysis of trends in demand for skills in the region. The paper addresses the following...
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Estimates of labor mobility costs are needed to assess the responses of employment and wages to trade shocks when …
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