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This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes employment but employment does not cause wages. There is significant …
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This paper synthesizes nine in-depth developing country (LDC) studies on the impact of trade upon wages. It is … supply shifts generally shift wages. Second, liberalization was accompanied by rising relative wages and labor demand. And …
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With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico entered a bilateral free trade agreement which not only lowered its own tariffs on imports but also lowered tariffs on its exports to the U.S. We find that women's relative wage increased, particularly during the...
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reform paid their workers high wages, and raised the premium paid to workers in states along the U.S. border. These changes …
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Using firm-level data for Georgia, the paper estimates the quasi-elasticity of employment and wages with respect to the … employment levels and average wages by gender and consider whether export destination or the competiveness of economies matters … improves female employment but reduces overall average wages and female wages. Increasing exports to the European Union as well …
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reform initiated in 1985 for industry employment and industry wages. Although the reform reduced manufacturing tariffs on … across sectors. The reform, however, was associated with bigger declines in relative industry wages in sectors that …
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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...
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