Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177437 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Documento de Trabajo No. 212
Publisher: 
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), La Plata
Abstract: 
This paper studies the impact of Argentina trade liberalization during the nineties on the industry wage premium structure. We find that accounting for unobserved time invariant industry characteristics is crucial. When we do not control for industry fixed effects, we find that workers in protected sectors receive lower wages. However, introducing industry fixed effects reverses the results; tariff protection creates sector specific rents that are in part translated to workers in terms of greater wages. Since Argentina's tariff structure during this period protected relatively more sectors employing higher proportions of skilled workers, nineties trade policy may have had an adverse effect on Argentina's income distribution.
Subjects: 
skill premium
industry premium
trade liberalization
Argentina
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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