This paper studies the impact of import competition from China on informality and wages in the Peruvian manufacturing … surge in imports from China on the likelihood of being hired in the informal sector and on wages in both the formal and … informal sectors. The results suggest that greater import competition increased the chances of working in the informal sector …

wages for 26 European economies. To ease comparisons we make use of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … Conditions inquiry released in 2009. The premium is found to be higher at the right tail of the distribution of wages, suggesting …

Trade liberalization affects real-wage inequality through two channels: the distribution of nominal wages across …

finding is in line with the option theory of investment and implies that irreversibility effect of increased uncertainty …