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 economics literature, assesses their relevance for Latin America and …

In this paper, we explore the role of trade in the evolution of labor share in Latin American countries. We use trade … trade. In the last two decades, labor share has displayed a negative trend among those countries that signed trade … methods to estimate the average causal impact of trade agreements on labor share. While effects are heterogeneous in our eight …

This paper analyzes whether Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) signed between the United States and Latin American countries … empirical strategy benefits from the fact that about half of Latin American countries have signed a trade agreement with the … of labor inspectors and a 60 percent increase in the number of inspections. The North American Free Trade Agreement …

This paper studies the role of trade for the joint uptake of AI-enabled automation in manufacturing and engineering. It …-shaped curve for manufacturers and a boom and bust cycle for engineers. Trade affects the cut-off productivity rate at which … services from the high-wage country, a pattern similar to China's trade and AI development." …