Trade Liberalization Employment Flows And Wage Inequality In Brazil
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Author | : Francisco H. G. Ferreira |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Brazil |
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Using nationally representative, economywide data, this paper investigates the relative importance of trade-mandated effects on industry wage premia; industry and economywide skill premia; 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 toward a reduction in wage inequality. These effects have not occurred through changes in industry-specific (wage or skill) premia. Instead, they appear to have been channeled through substantial employment flows across sectors and formality categories. Changes in the economywide skill premium are also important.
Author | : Nina Pavcnik |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Equality |
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Author | : Francisco Gallego, G. R. Arabsheibani |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 25 |
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Author | : William Mahoney, Mariano Bosch, Edwin Goni |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business cycles |
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Abstract: This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rising informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from 1983 to 2002. This period covers two economic cycles, several stabilization plans, a far-reaching trade liberalization, and changes in labor legislation through the Constitutional reform of 1988. First, focusing on cyclical patterns, the authors confirm that for Brazil, the patterns of worker transitions between formality and informality correspond primarily to the job-to-job dynamics observed in the United States, and not to the traditional idea of the informal queuing for jobs in a segmented market. However, the analysis also confirms distinct cyclical patterns of job finding and separation rates that lead to the informal sector absorbing more labor during downturns. Second, focusing on secular movements in gross flows and the volatility of flows, the paper finds the rise in informality to be driven primarily by a reduction in job finding rates in the formal sector. A small fraction of this is driven by trade liberalization, and the remainder seems driven by rising labor costs and reduced flexibility arising from Constitutional reform.
Author | : Jorge Alvarez |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 2017-12-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1484333039 |
We document a large decrease in earnings inequality in Brazil between 1996 and 2012. Using administrative linked employer-employee data, we fit high-dimensional worker and firm fixed effects models to understand the sources of this decrease. Firm effects account for 40 percent of the total decrease and worker effects for 29 percent. Changes in observable worker and firm characteristics contributed little to these trends. Instead, the decrease is primarily due to a compression of returns to these characteristics, particularly a declining firm productivity pay premium. Our results shed light on potential drivers of earnings inequality dynamics.
Author | : G. R. Arabsheibani |
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Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Pay equity |
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Author | : Nina Pavcnik |
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Release | : 2010 |
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Industry affiliation provides an important channel through which trade liberalization can affect worker earnings and wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers. This empirical study of the impact of the 1988-94 trade liberalization in Brazil on the industry wage structure suggests that although industry affiliation is an important component of worker earnings, the structure of industry wage premiums is relatively stable over time. There is no statistical association between changes in industry wage premiums and changes in trade policy or between industry-specific skill premiums to university graduates and trade policy. Thus trade liberalization in Brazil did not significantly contribute to increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers through changes in industry wage premiums. The difference between these results and those obtained for other countries (such as Colombia and Mexico) provides fruitful ground for studying the conditions under which trade reforms do not have an adverse effect on industry wage differentials.
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Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Electronic book |
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Author | : Gustavo Gonzaga |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Free trade |
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Author | : Carlos Henrique Leite Corseuil |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
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This article investigates whether the trade liberalization introduced in Brazil by the end of the 1980s affected the structure of employment and wage. We use data from the manufacturing sector from 1987 to 1998 and found evidences that the higher trade flow affected the inter-industry employment shares and wage premia. We also found that skilled and unskilled workers were differently affected by trade liberalization.