Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified … pure 'trade'- effects, supporting the Heckscher-Ohlin predictions of the effects of trade on wage inequality once the …

emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more …

trade surges in low wage products and technological change. It argues that if the observed wage inequality response to price …This paper focuses on the decomposition of increased wage inequality in OECD countries into the component factors of …

This paper introduces a framework to study the impact of trade liberalization on wage inequality and welfare in the … wages on the right side of the distribution. Nevertheless, inequality in the open economy is always higher than in autarky … of workers for working at different firms generates between-firm wage inequality for workers with identical skills. The …

-collar) occupations. Our results, identified out of the variation in wages within firm-worker pairs, are robust to controlling for a …

wages, and declining labor informality, a confluence of factors that reduced earnings inequality. In the aftermath of the …Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings … inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the …

This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp … reduction starting in 2002. The Gini coefficient of wages increased from 42 to 44 between 1995 and 2002 and declined to 39 by … characterized by rising wages across the board, but especially among those at the bottom of the wage distribution in each country …

Using nationally representative, economy-wide data, this paper investigates the relative importance of trade … the wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade … liberalization appears to have made a significant contribution towards a reduction in wage inequality. These effects have not …

Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … definitions of outsourcing. Furthermore we find some evidence that high-skilled workers experienced increased wages due to …

development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular … to what extent skill- biased technical change and trade liberalization share a major responsibility. The conclusion of …