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 …

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. …

emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more …

greater rates of poverty decline and gains in wages and employment. We extend this literature by estimating the impact of … exports has a limited impact, except for wages. When considering supply chain linkages, the impact on wages and income is more …

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 …

Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade … Organization in 1986. Since the mid-1990s, however, wage inequality has been falling. Since most trade models suggest that output …, but these prices flattened by 1999 and thus cannot explain the subsequent decline in wage inequality. An alternative trade …

evidence we do find is most likely due to factors unrelated to US-Mexico integration. While migration, trade, and FDI may … United States and Mexico over the last 25 years. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between these countries … during the period 1988 and 2011. We match survey and census data from Mexico and the United States to estimate the change in …

-export unit values. We find that the increase in prices is associated with increases in women's wages that go beyond the apparel … increase in apparel export prices, consistent with trade theory, and that the change estimated with a cross-section IV approach … language of trade theory, are the benefits from exporting industry specific or factor specific? To analyze this question, we …

wages, and declining labor informality, a confluence of factors that reduced earnings inequality. In the aftermath of the …Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings … inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the …

trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers. Wage inequality across and within firms results from their different …, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform. …Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in …