Using firm-level data for Georgia, the paper estimates the quasi-elasticity of employment and wages with respect to the … employment levels and average wages by gender and consider whether export destination or the competiveness of economies matters … improves female employment but reduces overall average wages and female wages. Increasing exports to the European Union as well …

trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis … of exports to workers reduces income inequality measured by the Gini coefficient by 0.17 point (using a 0 to 100 scale …

context, since the poor are typically the most affected by lack of competition, new analytical tools to assess the … knowledge gap, this paper introduces a simple simulation method, the Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with … markets in Mexico that are known for their high level of concentration: mobile telecommunications and corn products. The …