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Since the 1991 balance of payments crisis, India has embarked on an ambitious program of economic liberalization. Over … will have to carry out the more-difficult second-generation reforms, if India is to benefit fully from its liberalization …
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India. We show that since the withdrawal of the quota, the industry has witnessed unprecedented concentration of firm … wage bill of export-oriented firms in India actually rose during this period. However, the aggregate state-level wage bill …
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We develop a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous workers and endogenous firm entry to study wage inequality during the adjustment after trade liberalization. We find that trade liberalization increases wage inequality both in the...
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Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but also throughout the developing world. This stylized fact is contrary to the predictions of classical trade theory that in countries with high endowments of unskilled labor,...
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We use a large sample of German workers to analyze the effect of low-wage competition with China and Eastern Europe (the East) on the wage structure within German manufacturing industries. Utilizing the method by Abowd et al. (1999), we decompose wages into firm and worker components. We find...
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The rise in income inequality in developing countries after trade liberalization has been a puzzle for trade theory, which predicts the opposite effect. The authors present a model with imported intermediate goods in which the relative wages of skilled labor can rise due to higher imports of...
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We investigate the impact of international trade on wages and on wage inequality across industries and regions in Canada. An employer–employee dataset is developed combining individual worker characteristics from the 20% sample of the 2001 Census of Population and synthetic establishments from...
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We analyze the medium- and long-term consequences of India's economic and trade liberalization on three ratios of skill …
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We investigate the relationship between economic deregulation (delicensing), skill upgrading, and wage inequality … during the 1980s and 1990s in India. We use a unique dataset on India's industrial licensing regime to test whether … industrial deregulation during the 1980s and 1990s played a role in generating demand for skilled workers, as measured by the …
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This study examines the inter-industry wage structure of the organised manufacturing sector in India for the period … Industrial Classification 1998 (India), our estimation procedure obtains estimates of growth of real wages per worker that are … structure in India has changed a lot in the period 1973-74 to 2003-04 and that it provides some evidence that the inter …
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