The use of trade liberalization to enhance manufacturing productivity has been a commonly applied policy in several … developing countries since the 1980s. This paper proposes a new methodology to estimate the inter-industry productivity …-1998) indicate that inter-industry productivity spillovers exist, are positive, and account for 70% of the increase in productivity …

The desire to increase manufacturing productivity has been a commonly cited goal of the trade liberalization episodes … in productivity. However, this paper finds that the methodology used in the literature ignores inter …-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry …

Maßnahmen möglicherweise fehlgeleitet sein können und schnelle Deregulierung und schnelle Handelsliberalisierung potentiell zu …

Brazil before and after the trade liberalization in the beginning of the 1990s. We find that union bargaining power increased …

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

Brazil underwent a large trade liberalization process in the 1990s. Over the period, manufacturing employment decreased …

Over the 1990’s Brazil experienced a massive trade liberalization and wide variation in the real exchange rate. At … flows in Brazil. Using a novel sector exchange rate measure, our results suggest that a depreciation of the exchange rate …

the impact of Brazil's 1987-1994 trade liberalization on labor force participation of women. To identify the causal effect …