This paper analyses and quantifies the effects of trade liberalisation and skill-biased technical change, both exogenous and trade-induced, on the skill premium and real wages of unskilled and skilled workers in the Mexican manufacturing sector, using industry- and firm-level data for 1984-1990...

This paper analyses the effects of trade liberalisation and technical change on real and relative wages.  It builds a model with monopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and two countries, North and South, and solves it numerically.  Skill-biased technical change, caused by decreases in...

This paper tests the hypothesis that, in the presence of credit constraints, higher wealth inequality affects negatively the growth gains from trade liberalisation. Variations in the growth rate of value added–decomposed in the growth rate of the number of establishments and the growth rate in...