countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade …The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid … emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income …

We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic … is essentially driven by a reduction in inequality between countries, while the effect of migration on within … effects of migration on stayers' wages, we find similar to stronger effects on inequality, albeit with a smaller increase in …

I analyze the links between talent migration and cross-country inequality by exploiting the 1995 elimination of … trajectory, and conclude that the elimination of mobility barriers increases not only cross-country inequality by 25%, but also …

empirical evidence concerning international migration, the widening international income dispersion, the narrowing national …We analyze the impacts of labor market integration and migration on skill formation, wage structures, and per capita … market integration, by allowing for migration in response to wage differentials, changes the wage structures and, therefore …

This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp … for the process of reduction in inequality, but do not fully account for the fall in within-skill variance. Evidence using …

Costa Rica experienced in recent years increasing international migration from neighboring countries due to political …, economic and social reasons. This paper is the first to disentangle the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Rican … from the impact for already settled migrants. We analyze the effect of migration on wages within cells of education …

This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality. Country-specific studies that focused on labor market inequality have shown that, with a few exceptions, wage …

Mexico and the US. First, we find no evidence of long-run wage convergence among cohorts characterized by low migration … convergence for workers with high migration propensities. Finally, we find evidence of convergence in the border of Mexico vis …

This paper examines immigrant wage growth taking into account selective out-migration using administrative data from … the Netherlands. We also take into account the potential endogeneity of the immigrants' labor supply and their out-migration … and out-migration behavior. We find that simple models lead to biased estimates of the wage growth of immigrants …