of labor inspectors and a 60 percent increase in the number of inspections. The North American Free Trade Agreement …This paper analyzes whether Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) signed between the United States and Latin American countries … during the last decade produced higher enforcement of labor regulations. The paper computes before-after estimates of the …

primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail (50/10) inequality. Relative labor supply is important for explaining …-skilled workers during the 2000s. Changes in the minimum wage, and more importantly, commodity-led terms of trade improvements are key …

industry or the firm, on wages and on the economic performance of firms within the manufacturing sector in Uruguay, using a …

longitudinal data of all college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various … programs, of private institutions, and of schools with higher reputation earn higher wages. Even after controlling for all the …

This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the world have … changes in China's impact on Latin America's traditional and largest trading partners than to increased direct bilateral trade …

's low levels of social mobility, including social exclusion, low access to higher education, and labor market discrimination …