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Import competition in the manufacturing sector in Peru: Its impact on informality and wages

Pierola, Martha Denisse; Sanchez-Navarro, Dennis - 2019

This paper studies the impact of import competition from China on informality and wages in the Peruvian manufacturing … surge in imports from China on the likelihood of being hired in the informal sector and on wages in both the formal and … among workers with only elementary educationarguably one of the less-skilled groups. Regarding the impact on real wages, we …

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The labor market power of exporting firms: Evidence from Latin America

Amodio, Francesco; Brancati, Emanuele; de Roux, Nicolás; … - 2024

Using establishment-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, we assess the market power of exporting firms across 16 countries in Latin America. Leveraging information on export destinations, as well as exchange rate and price data, we construct exchange rate-driven shocks to the...

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An updated assessment of the trade and poverty nexus in Latin America

Giordano, Paolo; Li, Kun - 2012

Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap exists in the knowledge about the distributive impacts of trade integration. This study attempts to fill this gap: it surveys the most recent contributions to the mainstream trade...

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Globalization and inequality in Latin America

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on research emerging from the late 2000s onward, with an emphasis on empirical work considering new mechanisms, studying new dimensions of inequality, and developing new...

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The contractionary effects of protectionist trade policy in a dollarized economy

Grijalva, Diego F.; Uribe-Terán, Carlos; Gache, Ivan - 2024

This study analyzes the firm-level impacts of temporary safeguard import tariffs implemented in Ecuador from 2015 to 2017. Employing a difference-in-differences methodology, we explore the policy's effects on a unique dataset combining firm- and product-level data. We focus on the direct effects...

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Short- and long-run labor market adjustment to import competition

Blyde, Juan S.; Busso, Matias; Park, Kyunglin; Romero … - 2023

By exploiting spatial variation in import exposure arising from initial differences in industry specialization, we analyze how local labor markets in Mexico adjusted to increased Chinese-import competition over different time horizons. The initial adjustment to the shock took various forms: a...

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Training and labor adjustment to trade

Blyde, Juan S.; Pires, José Claudio Linhares; Chatruc, … - 2019

While there is a large body of literature evaluating how active labor-market policies such as training impact worker outcomes, relatively few studies examine how such policies impact workers who are displaced by trade. The few studies on training and trade-related labor adjustment focus on the...

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