Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that … comparative-advantage industries and at exporters. These findings are robust to instrumenting trade barriers and export status … predictors of labor turnover. Trade liberalization is associated with significantly more transitions to informal work status and …

This study describes the changing patterns of intermediate goods trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in East Asia … of the paper are as follows. First, intra-regional trade in East Asia grew remarkably during the period 1990-2003. While … overall trade with the rest of the world roughly doubled in this period, intra-regional trade in East Asia more than tripled …

market adjustment following Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization. We document how workers and regional labor markets … adjust to trade-induced changes in local labor demand, examining various adjustment margins, including earnings and wage …, informal employment, and non-employment. Our results provide insight into the regional labor market effects of trade, and have …

Applying a common empirical approach to comparable industry-level data on production, trade,and labor markets for Japan …

Applying a common empirical approach to comparable industry-level data on production, trade, and labor markets for …

Unlike many countries, Egypt did not experience significant labor market improvements following trade liberalization … export expansion, this is not occurring at a large enough scale to be felt at the macro level. To seize the benefits of trade …

Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap … exists in the knowledge about the distributive impacts of trade integration. This study attempts to fill this gap: it surveys … the most recent contributions to the mainstream trade economics literature, assesses their relevance for Latin America and …

to describe the underlying forces linking trade with factor prices. I argue that missing regional and related inter …-sectoral labor mobility might be a potential factor preventing employees from taking advantage of trade liberalization. To …

Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … also throughout the developing world. This stylized fact is contrary to the predictions of classical trade theory that in … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified …