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Winners and Losers from a Commodities-for-Manufactures Trade Boom
Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, Joao Paulo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winners from growing Chinese demand for commodities. Using census data for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775659
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Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets. The Mexican Experience 1987-2002
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
US and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting the inferior sector of a segmented market. That said, the … counter cyclical job finding in the formal sector combined with the acyclical job finding in informality does lead to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510431
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The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Informality and Wages: Evidence from Mexico
Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - Centre for Economic Performance, 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/10005151025
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Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico. Revisiting the Evidence
Bosch, Mariano; Manacorda, Marco - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980 and the late 1990s. In contrast to the view that sees minimum wages as an ineffective redistributive tool in developing countries, we find that the...
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