Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Adjustment in Brazil

• Tác giả: Nina Pavcnik
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 278.1 Christianity in South America Christian church in South
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2014
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 311394
• Chủ đề: 1. AVERAGE TARIFF LEVELS; 2. CHANGES IN TRADE; 3. CURRENT ACCOUNT; 4. CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT; 5. DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Tóm tắt

 The authors study the impact of the 1988-94 trade liberalization in Brazil on wage distribution. They explore three main channels through which trade liberalization could have affected wage distribution: (1) increasing returns to skilled workers because of Hecksher-Ohlin adjustments to trade policy
  (2) trade-induced skill-biased technological change
  and (3) changes in industry wage premiums. The results suggest that trade reform in Brazil did contribute to the growing skill premium through skill-biased technological change, which was partially instigated by increased foreign competition. The authors also find that sector-specific returns to skill increased more in sectors with bigger tariff reductions. But they find little support for Hecksher-Ohlin type adjustments to trade reform. Overall, the effects of trade reform on wage inequality seem relatively small.