This study examines the impacts of imports from China and from the Rest of the World (ROW) on the wages of Brazilian … manufacturing workers during 2000–2012. In this period, import penetration in Brazil grew by 25 percent, and the Chinese share of it … imports from China and from the ROW had different effects on manufacturing skilled and unskilled workers’ wages. Both the …

informal labor markets. In this period, import penetration grew by more than 20 percent in Brazil, and the share of the import … estimates suggest that a larger Chinese import penetration reduces average formal wages, while imports from elsewhere have the … opposite effect. The results also indicate that the magnitude of the effects on wages are moderated by the unskilled labor …

This paper presents new empirical evidence about the wage gap between union and nonunion workers in Brazil. In …

the ROW raised workers wages and reduced the likelihood of their being informally employed. The state-level estimates …