Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … 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 …

We study the impact of trade exposure in the job biographies, measured with daily accuracy, of 2.4 million workers in … labor market effects of trade. …

This paper examines whether increased import competition induces domestic workers to skill upgrade and/or switch … of international competition. First, we exploit the strong appreciation of the Portuguese currency in 1989-1992 and pre …-existing differences in trade exposure across industries in a differences-in-differences estimation. Second, we make use of changes in …

We characterize the salient features of the distribution of (log) earnings of formal workers in Mexico using social … information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes as nonresponse is … employment, we also study the impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector …

We characterize the salient features of the distribution of earnings and earnings changes of formal workers in Mexico … information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes. We also study the … impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector and the effect of early …

The factors behind the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in developing countries are still not well … the wage bill share and relative wages of skilled labor. This finding is contrary to the commonly held view that …

-quarter of changes in labor-market outcomes (wage inequality then and manufacturing job losses now) was predicted by trade …Trade and technological change continually alter the workplace and labor-market outcomes, with consequences for economy …

The rise in income inequality in developing countries after trade liberalization has been a puzzle for trade theory …, which predicts the opposite effect. The authors present a model with imported intermediate goods in which the relative wages …

We exploit rich worker-establishment data to trace the impact of rising international trade exposure in the job … market effects of trade …

This paper addresses the impact of rising international trade exposure on individual earnings profiles in heterogeneous … to trade shocks. Rising import penetration reduces earnings within job spells, and it induces workers to leave the … market response to trade shocks: Import shocks trigger substantial "push effects", whereas the "pull effects" of export …