wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade …

deals with the effects of openness to trade, foreign direct investment, and financial crises on average wages. Second, it … discusses the impact of exposure to world markets on the dispersion of wages by occupation, skill, and gender. Third, it …

declined and hourly wages changed little. But both the magnitude and nature of the adjustments varied considerably across …

market restrictions on wages and its spatial pattern. The empirical specification is derived from a general equilibrium model … that predicts that the adverse effects of land market restrictions on wages will be less in remote locations. For … sub-district. The results show that land restrictions reduce wages substantially, and this effect is smaller in remote …

correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher wages. Teachers are highly effective in our setting: Moving a student from … between TVA and wages in the public sector (although there is in the private sector), and a policy change that shifted public … hiring from permanent to temporary contracts, reducing wages by 35 percent, had no adverse impact on TVA, either immediately …

The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries … wages and wage inequality. After setting up unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, trends in wages, and trends …) has reduced wages, and (2) has increased wage inequality …