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 …

employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment …, production and productivity. On average, workers’ wages are also positively impacted by increased services trade. The findings …Services trade has become increasingly important, yet its impact on employment has been understudied at present. This …

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 study analyzes the effect of trade liberalization on wage inequality through industry wage premiums in Indonesia … trade liberalization, controlling for market concentration. The study finds a negative effect of import tariffs on industry … versa, industry wage premiums increased by more in sectors experiencing larger tariff cuts. This suggests that trade …

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 …

-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 … decompose wages into firm and worker components. We find that the rise of market access and competitiveness of the East has a …

This paper reviews the effects of trade liberalisation on wages in developing countries, and presents new evidence for … Brazil. Wages fell substantially in the traded sector after trade liberalisation, consistent with there being reduced rents … as industries faced greater competition. After trade liberalisation there was an increase in the marginal returns to …

This paper first reviews theoretical and empirical studies of the effects of trade liberalisation on wages in … greater competition. Conditional wages also fell, though by a smaller amount, in the non-traded sector, possibly reflecting … developing countries. It then presents new evidence for the case of Brazil which experienced a period of rapid trade …

, a positive nonlinear relationship is found to exist. -- Wage Inequality ; Trade Liberalization ; Foreign Direct … of trade openness and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in explaining inter-industry wage differentials for the case of … Mexico. Using INEGI's National Survey of Urban Employment for the period 1994-2004, the empirical analysis is conducted on …