Using the growth accounting and factor content approaches, this article looks at the impact of trade liberalisation on the structure and level of employment in Brazil over the 1990-97 period. The results support the argument that trade liberalisation in developing countries have a negative...

Using the framework of the trade regime and employment literature, this paper looks at the impact of trade liberatization on the structure and level of employment in Brazil, over the 1990/96 period. The results support the argument that trade liberalization tends to have a negative short-term...