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| Title: | | Trade liberalization, employment flows and wage inequality in Brazil  |
| Authors: | | Ferreira, Francisco H. G. Leite, Phillippe G. Wai-Poi, Matthew |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Research Paper, UNU-WIDER, United Nations University (UNU) 2007/58 |
| 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. Instead, they appear to have been channelled through substantial employment flows across sectors and formality categories. Changes in the economy-wide skill premium are also important. |
| Subjects: | | trade liberalization inequality employment flows Brazil |
| JEL: | | D31 F16 J31 |
| ISBN: | | 978-92-9230-005-0 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Research Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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