Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified … pure “trade”- effects, supporting the Heckscher-Ohlin predictions of the effects of trade on wage inequality once the …

Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising … commercial integration and foreign direct investment followed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement between the United … States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between Mexico and the United States between 1988 and …

employment and wages. Chinese competition tended to have the opposite effect. Additionally, we find that the labor market …We analyze the labor market consequences of international trade, using the evidence provided by the behavior of Mexican … labor markets after the introduction of NAFTA in the nineties and the accession of China to the WTO in 2001. Following an …

China's exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third party markets … from China are associated with a reduction of employment in Mexico's textile and apparel sectors. These effects are the …. We examine labor market outcomes in Mexico's apparel and textile sectors associated with U.S. apparel and textile imports …

local labor market effects (wages and informality) and estimates from wage equations that reflect the predictions from long …-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, we find that the export shock was localized both in terms … of sector and geography. Wages increased and informality decreased in sub-districts more exposed to the export shock …

terms of their productivity performance and paid wages? Second, to what extent exporting and non-exporting firms have … and wage growth for the Chinese economy. In this respect, ''gains from catching-up'' outweigh any ''gain from trade''. …

We study the impact of trade exposure in the job biographies, measured with daily accuracy, of 2.4 million workers in … labor market effects of trade. …

This paper examines whether increased import competition induces domestic workers to skill upgrade and/or switch … of international competition. First, we exploit the strong appreciation of the Portuguese currency in 1989-1992 and pre …-existing differences in trade exposure across industries in a differences-in-differences estimation. Second, we make use of changes in …

to trade competition from China. We use detailed matched worker-firm data from the Swedish manufacturing sector. We … (captured by the adoption of information and communication technologies, ICT) and import competition, due to increased exposure … adoption of ICT along with stronger Chinese import competition results in a significant skill upgrade within high-wage firms …