Trade Liberalization, Employment Flows and Wage Inequality in Brazil

Phillippe Leite, Matthew Wai-Poi and Francisco Ferreira

No RP2007-58, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Using nationally representative, economy-wide data, this paper investigates the relative importance of trade-mandated effects on industry wage premiums; industry and economy-wide skill premiums; and employment flows in accounting for changes in 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 occurred through changes in industry-specific (wage or skill) premiums.

Keywords: Equality and inequality; Trade regulation; Unemployment; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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