Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25981 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1936
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that foreign import penetration and tariff reductions trigger worker displacements but that neither comparative-advantage industries nor exporters absorb displaced workers for years. There are significantly more displacements and fewer accessions in comparative-advantage industries and at exporters. These findings are robust to instrumenting trade barriers and export status with product demand at Brazil's export destinations and real exchange rate components. Worker effects are important predictors of labor turnover. Trade liberalization is associated with significantly more transitions to informal work status and self-employment. Output is reallocated to more productive firms but, given fast labor-productivity growth, this product reallocation is not accompanied by similar labor reallocation.
Subjects: 
international trade
factor reallocation
labor demand and turnover
linked employer-employee data
JEL: 
F14
F16
J23
J63
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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