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The effect of trade liberalization on informality and wages: evidence from Mexico
Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with … firm heterogeneity, it is predicted that import tariff elimination could reduce the incidence of informality by making more … the Mexican import tariffs are significantly related to reductions in the likelihood of informality in the tradable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746201
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The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows
Maloney, William F.; Bosch, Mariano; Goni, Edwin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rising informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from … and Maloney’s (2006) findings for Mexico that the patterns of worker transitions between formality and informality … correspond primarily to the job-to-job dynamics observed in the US and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761741
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Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department … - 2010
This paper studies trade-induced transitional dynamics by estimating a structural dynamic equilibrium model of the labor market. The model features a multi-sector economy with overlapping generations, heterogeneous workers, endogenous accumulation of sector-specific experience and costly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149924
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Import protection, exports and labor-demand elasticities: Evidence from Korea
Mitra, Devashish; Shin, Jeongeun - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 23 (2012) C, pp. 91-109
We empirically examine the impact of trade on labor demand elasticities using Korean firm-level data. In our analysis, in addition to looking at the impact of liberalizing import restrictions, we take into account the fact that greater trade integration also leads to better and greater export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573092
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Return to Education in Vietnam: Wage versus Employment Effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Quang, Doan Hong - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
Several studies have identified the impact of trade liberalization in developing countries on the return to education within a Mincerian framework through a difference-in-difference estimator or with industry-level measures of trade openness. These studies have typically estimated the return to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008921781
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Return to Education in Vietnam: Wage versus Employment Effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Quang, Doan Hong - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
Several studies have identified the impact of trade liberalization in developing countries on the return to education within a Mincerian framework through a difference-in-difference estimator or with industry-level measures of trade openness. These studies have typically estimated the return to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256311
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The impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing employment and wages in Egypt 1990-2007
Said, Mona; Elshennawy, Abeer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper explores the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing employment and wages over a period 1993-2006, a period coinciding with significant reduction in trade barriers and rising unemployment. Despite increasing import penetration, the paper shows that employment has increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685555
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Trade liberalization, labor reforms and formal–informal employment dynamics
Bosch, Mariano; Goñi-Pacchioni, Edwin; Maloney, William - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 5, pp. 653-667
This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rise in informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from … constitutional reforms. Trade liberalization accounts for roughly 1–2.5% of the increase in informality, while the constitutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051733
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Wage Premia and Skill Upgrading in Italy: Why Didn't the Hound Bark?
Manasse, Paolo; Stanca, Luca; Turrini, Alessandro Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper presents firm level evidence on the dynamics of non-manual wage premia and employment shares in Italian manufacturing during the nineties. We find that the relative stability of aggregate wage premia and employment shares hides offsetting disaggregate forces. First, while technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504296
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Is there really no link between international trade and wage differentials? A cross-country analysis
Corsini, Lorenzo - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2011
This paper investigates empirically the relationship between international trade (in particular with non-OECD countries) and wage differentials of workers with different skills. We examine years from 1996 and 2005 in several countries and, whereas past studies (conducted on previous years) had...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293636