In this paper, micro-level evidence on the link between trade and labor markets is provided using annual plant level data from Colombia. At the firm level, the manifestation of the observed relationship between trade and changing labor market conditions would be differing worker compositions...

During the last 50 years with unprecedented population growth and urbanization, economic development, particularly in developing countries failed to generate adequate employment and income opportunities in the modern sector, compelling the surplus labour force to generate its own means of...