global south. The textile and clothing industry is the largest foreign exchange earner and the largest employment provider in …-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate … wage bill of export-oriented firms in India actually rose during this period. However, the aggregate state-level wage bill …

-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …

higher average wages; thus any relatively slower employment growth in this group of firms could lead to lower inequality …This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the …

empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified … pure “trade”- effects, supporting the Heckscher-Ohlin predictions of the effects of trade on wage inequality once the …Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but …

native Colombian workers, the exodus had a larger negative effect on the lower tail of the wage distribution, implying … increases in income inequality and poverty. We link this result to a sizeable downgrading of (mostly unregistered) Venezuelan …

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … inequality. After summarizing both design-based and quantitative work in this area, we propose directions for future work. Our …

importance of “trade-induced horizontal inequality,” i.e. inequality brought about by trade shocks that occurs among workers with … the same level of earnings prior to the shock. While this type of inequality does not affect the income distribution, it … horizontal inequality and changes in the income distribution induced by trade in a data-driven way, we develop a characterization …

industry. The more routine jobs are cut, the higher is the effect on wage inequality, especially on the dispersion of worker …-specific wages. Overall, trade explains up to 19% of the recent increase in wage inequality and slightly exceeds the technology …We use a large sample of German workers to analyze the effect of low-wage competition with China and Eastern Europe …