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Trade Liberalization, Employment Flows, and Wage Inequality in Brazil
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe G.; … - 2012
Using nationally representative, economywide data, this paper investigates the relative importance of trade-mandated effects on industry wage premia; industry and economywide skill premia; and employment flows in accounting for changes in the wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade...
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Doha Scenarios, Trade Reforms, and Poverty in the Philippines : A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Cororaton, Caesar B.; Cockburn, John; Corong, Erwin - 2012
Since the early 1980s the Philippines has undertaken substantial trade reform. The current Doha Round of World Trade … households in the wake of falling world prices and demand for the Philippines' agricultural exports. The authors find that the … poverty, especially in rural areas and among the unemployed, self-employed, and rural low-educated. The Philippines is found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554193
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Can Maquila Booms Reduce Poverty? Evidence from Honduras
de Hoyos, Rafael E.; Bussolo, Maurizio; N????ez, Oscar - 2012
This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila...
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Trends in Tariff Reforms and Trends in Wage Inequality
Galiano, Sebastian; Porto, Guido G. - 2012
The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries. While most of the current literature on the topic achieves identification by comparing outcomes before and after one episode of trade liberalization across industries, they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553729
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Trade Protection and Industry Wage Structure in Poland
Javorcik, Beata S. - Chor-ching Goh - 2012
The authors examine the impact of Poland's trade liberalization in 1994-2001 on the industry wage structure. The liberalization was undertaken in preparation for Poland's accession to the European Union and was more pronounced in industries with larger shares of unskilled labor. Their analysis...
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Does Tariff Liberalization Increase Wage Inequality? Some Empirical Evidence
Milanovic, Branko; Squire, Lyn - 2012
The objective of the paper is to answer an often asked question: If tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality? The authors consider two types of wage inequality: between occupations (skills premium) and between industries. They use two large databases of wage inequality that...
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Connecting the Unobserved Dots : A Decomposition Analysis of Changes in Earnings Inequality in Urban Argentina, 1980-2002
Demombynes, Gabriel; Metzler, Johannes - 2012
There are several possible explanations for the observed changes in inequality, the returns to education, and the gap between the wages of informal and formal salaried workers in Argentina over the period 1980-2002. Largely due to the lack of evidence for competing explanations, skill-biased...
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Openness, Inequality, and Poverty : Endowments Matter
Gourdon, Julien; Maystre, Nicolas; de Melo, Jaime - 2012
Using tariffs as a measure of openness, the authors find consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization is associated with increases in inequality in countries well-endowed in highly...
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Trade Reforms and Welfare : An Ex-Post Decomposition of Income in Vietnam
Isik-Dikmelik, Aylin - 2012
This paper analyzes the impact of trade reforms on household welfare. In particular, it studies the importance of each of the links that together constitute the impact using data from the Vietnamese experience in the 1990s. The implementation of trade reforms in the 1990s, most noteworthy of...
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Global Impacts of the Doha Scenarios on Poverty
Anderson, Kym; Martin, William J.; van der Mensbrugghe, … - 2012
The authors illustrate some of the potential consequences of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and international prices that have a direct impact on factor...
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