Staff View: Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics : Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data

Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics : Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data

This paper empirically studies the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. The paper uses variation in industry-speciﬁc tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor demand shocks and examines regional an...

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Main Authors:	Dix-Carneiro, Rafael, Kovak, Brian K.
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	trade liberalization transitional dynamics industry wages jobs employment household survey employment rate rights export markets accounting wage gap production earnings regressions skilled workers employment share informal sector minimum wage income protected industry perfect competition labor allocation exchange information labor force political economy job effects incentives labor economics trade reforms labor statistics factors of production retail trade labor market policies free trade wage growth developing country domestic workers labor market training development economics unemployed workers industry wage worker outputs job information productivity unemployed attrition program consisting adjustment process financial institutions formal labor market job market markets organizations household surveys open economy unemployment insurance labor earnings growth liberalization minimum wages unemployment skill premium factor markets human capital formal sector workers previous work workers job destruction rates displaced workers wages policies informal labor markets international trade barriers local labor markets real wage labor demand value cross-sectional data plant size paying job labor studies wage premium labor adjustment occupation private services income distribution employment status earnings regression labor market outcomes employment growth job creation labor mobility high wage formal sector wages economic theory worker heterogeneity economics leather industries insurance wage structure manufacturing industries trade job destruction pension account theory working conditions investment contracting labor market regulations laborers supply foreign workers employee employment dynamics labor supply labor market adjustment consumer price index world trade informal employment local labor market unskilled workers arbitrage labour capital investment labor markets economic shocks outcomes prices labor regulations labor reallocation employees
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21644

Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics : Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data

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