The desire to increase manufacturing productivity has been a commonly cited goal of the trade liberalization episodes … in productivity. However, this paper finds that the methodology used in the literature ignores inter …-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry …

factor productivity (TFP) in determining both the wage premium and tariffs. This omission invalidates the use of the pre … tariffs reduces the wage premium by 1.1%. This finding suggests the importance of using policies that boost productivity to …

industries and firms. We also found that Brazil’s labour productivity growth lagged behind what was achieved in other …This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and … 1979. New data presented here show that Brazilian industry achieved significant labour productivity growth during the post …

-site productivity impacts of erosion, along with standard intersectoral and inter-regional economic effects of trade liberalization. The … feedback mechanism in our analysis? Our results indicates that agricultural trade liberalisation reduces land productivity, but …