The impact of international trade on wage inequality recent evidence from Argentina

Claudio Fernández Macor, Néstor Perticarari and Carlos Beltrán
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Claudio Fernández Macor: Universidad Nacional del Litoral
Néstor Perticarari: Universidad Nacional del Litoral
Carlos Beltrán: Universidad Nacional del Litoral

Revista de Economía Política de Buenos Aires, 2011, issue 9-10, 145-179

Abstract: Wage inequality in Argentina has substantially changed in the last decade. During this period there were also significant changes in the macroeconomic and trade policy. This paper studies the impact of the international trade changes on the wage structure of Argentina between 1998 and 2006. Particularly, with microdata of household survey, we test the effect of import penetration and export intensity on the wage inequality on industrial sectors. The main outcome of the paper is that the effects were significant, generating a higher dispersion in the case of the imports and a higher equity in the case of the export.

Keywords: INTERNATIONAL TRADE; WAGE INEQUALITY; ARGENTINA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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