We evaluate empirically the impact of the dramatic 1991 trade liberalization in India on the industry wage structure …. The empirical strategy uses variation in industry wage premiums and trade policy across industries and over time. In … trade policy and changes in industry wage premiums over time. The results are consistent with liberalization …

We examine the effects of trade and services liberalization on wage inequality in India. We find that labor …%-66% of the increase in wage inequality is due to changes in industry wages and skill premiums that cannot be empirically … reallocations and wage shifts attributable to liberalization account for at most 29% of the increase in inequality between 1993 and …

demand for skilled labor, we find that international trade in manufactures benefited skilled men but hurt skilled women …

sector compared to men. This study focuses on the role of international trade as a source of increased competitive pressure … in domestic markets, and how it affects relative wages and formal employment between men and women. Using the Revealed … comparative advantage. The study concludes that trade goes hand in hand with a smaller gender wage gap in the services sectors as …

1973-74 to 2003-04 by estimating the growth of average real wages for production workers by industry. In order to estimate … Industrial Classification 1998 (India), our estimation procedure obtains estimates of growth of real wages per worker that are … on the need to consider the hypothesis that industry affiliation is potentially an important determinant of wages when …

We analyze the medium- and long-term consequences of India's economic and trade liberalization on three ratios of skill … after the 1991 liberalization medium-skilled wages fell relative to high- and low-skilled wages. From the late 1990's on the … growth of high-skilled wages outpaced the wages of the other two skill groups, pointing to new forces of globalization …

mobility, trade reform reduces the informal wage. This is the conventional wisdom usually obtained under a partial equilibrium …

with globalization may be twin to each other. We provide statistical evidence of this so far neglected trade-off for a …

The phased elimination of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement has been one of the most compelling trade policy reforms of the …-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate …

This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male … occupations for most of the period of analysis. However, the analysis finds no consistent, significant changes in wages based on …