country like Uganda in light of a standard Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) framework. But was the trade opening responsible for the … to be responsible for at least some of the rising returns to schooling among wage employees in Uganda. …

This paper first reviews theoretical and empirical studies of the effects of trade liberalisation on wages in … liberalisation at the beginning of the 1990s. Conditional on education and work experience, we find that wages fell substantially in … greater competition. Conditional wages also fell, though by a smaller amount, in the non-traded sector, possibly reflecting …

This paper provides new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages. We first introduce a model of trade that … industrial wages before and after one episode of trade liberalization, our strategy exploits the recent historical record of … trends in wages and wage inequality. We use unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, wages, and wage inequality to …

This paper provides new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages. Instead of achieving identification by … comparing industrial wages before and after one episode of trade liberalization, our strategy exploits the recent historical … wages and wage inequality. We use unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, wages, and wage inequality to examine …

decompose wages into firm and worker components. We find that the rise of market access and competitiveness of the East has a … explain changes in the firm wage premium. The rising dispersion in worker-specific wages can be attributed to increasing skill …-specific wages. Overall, trade explains up to 19% of the recent increase in wage inequality and slightly exceeds the technology …

employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment …, production and productivity. On average, workers’ wages are also positively impacted by increased services trade. The findings … suggest that services imports enhance female wages more than those of males, thereby contributing to narrow the gender wage …

-induced productivity increases at the firm level, which get passed on to industry wages. Since tariff reductions were proportionately …