This paper investigates the following questions: what were the effects of the 1990s economic reforms on employment, wages, income inequality indicators and international competitiveness? Did economic reforms cause major or minor effects on the economy? Who were the gainers and the losers of the...

This paper uses a computable general equilibrium model to simulate different trade liberalization policy scenarios and counterfactual microsimulations to assess the impacts of greater trade openness on household income distribution and poverty ratios. Our conclusion is that trade liberalization...

This paper uses a computable general equilibrium model to simulate different trade liberalization policy scenarios and counterfactual microsimulations to assess the impacts of greater trade openness on household income distribution and poverty ratios. Our conclusion is that trade liberalization...

The paper assesses the impacts of trade liberalization on macroeconomic variables and labor market indicators for the case of Brazil. The motivation is based on earlier debate on the role of trade liberalization in shaping out labor market outcomes in the well known Hecksher-Ohlin and...