scale effects on firms. These include reduced sales, employment, labor costs, and material costs, without positive impacts …

findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period … employment effects. The results reinforce some of the key findings of the earlier literature, notably the positive … employment point to a relatively small negative shock, not unlike that of the early 1990s, that was centered on low-skilled labor …

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … inequality. After summarizing both design-based and quantitative work in this area, we propose directions for future work. Our …

importance of “trade-induced horizontal inequality,” i.e. inequality brought about by trade shocks that occurs among workers with … the same level of earnings prior to the shock. While this type of inequality does not affect the income distribution, it … horizontal inequality and changes in the income distribution induced by trade in a data-driven way, we develop a characterization …

This paper advances the literature on the impacts of new technologies on labour markets, focusing on wage and labour … income shares over time. Our results indicate a positive correlation between patents and wage levels along with a minor …

study three sets of outcomes: manufacturing employment, labor informality, and average wage. We find that rising Chinese … import competition have negatively affected manufacturing and nontradable employment. Some workers were pushed into …

specialization. We found that the adjustment took various forms: a decline in the number of wage employees, the substitution of some … wage employees by contract workers, and the substitution of formally contracted employees by informally contracted ones …. The reduction in employment levels was accompanied by an increase in the population that exited the labor force. The …

initial adjustment to the shock took various forms: a decline in the number of wage employees, a substitution of wage … effects on employment were mainly associated with job destruction from exiting firms, particularly those that were small and … medium-sized. During periods in which employment fell, the population that actively participated in the labor force fell. The …