This paper studies the effects of trade liberalization on the evolution of firm productivity. The productivity of each … nominal tariffs on firms' productivity levels is identified. After controlling for the endogeneity of nominal tariffs, the … estimated coefficient for tariffs in the productivity equation turns out to be negative. Second, a measure of tariffs on inputs …

. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual … unambiguously decreases informality in the tradable sector, but has ambiguous effects on aggregate informality. (2) The productivity … when informality is repressed. (4) Repressing informality increases productivity, but at the expense of employment and …

Linked employer-employee data for Brazil over a period of large-scale trade liberalization document two salient …

1980's and 1990's, Brazil and Colombia, we examine the response of the informal sector to liberalization. In Brazil, we …

market adjustment following Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization. We document how workers and regional labor markets …

Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger …

methodology to Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization and find statistically significant but modest effects of liberalization …

Tracking individual workers across jobs after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that tariff cuts trigger … transitions to services, unemployment, and out of the labor force. Results are consistent with faster labor productivity growth …

In this paper, we use a linked employer-employee database from Brazil to evaluate the wage effects of trade reform …-specific productivity, we find that the premium paid to workers at exporting firms is economically and statistically insignificant, as is …