find that labor market conditions have a strong effect on homicides. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as …

trade liberalization in Brazil, which created exogenous negative labor market shocks to regions most exposed to foreign … competition. While trade liberalization had a positive impact on reducing the price of consumer goods in Brazil, it also …

Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in … data ; Brazil …

the impact of Brazil's 1987-1994 trade liberalization on labor force participation of women. To identify the causal effect … pull factors induced women to join the labor force. -- female labor force participation ; trade liberalization ; Brazil …

economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the … North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is … export status and provides an explanation for the lackluster average productivity performance of exporting plants. -- NAFTA …

extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity … and account for a small share of gross, industry-level changes in exports, employment, output, and productivity. The … distribution of exports are positively correlated with changes in total factor productivity. Our results suggest that plants face …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution. -- intra-industry trade ; heterogeneous …