In this paper, we explore the role of trade on the evolution of labor share in Latin American countries. We use trade agreements with large economies to capture the effect of sharp changes in trade. We apply synthetic control methods, combined with regression analysis, to estimate the average...

This paper takes advantage of several reforms that provide time and cross sectional variation to identify the effects of unemployment insurance and severance payments on the duration of unemployment and on the separation probability in Argentina. Administrative data permits analysis of the...

In this paper, we explore the role of trade in the evolution of labor share in Latin American countries. We use trade agreements with large economies (the United States, the European Union, and China) to capture the effect of sharp changes in trade. In the last two decades, labor share has...