Trade liberalization and labor market adjustment in Brazil

About

Countries

Data & Research

Learning

News

Projects & Operations

Publications

Topics

Home > Data & Research > Author Profile > Report Details

Trade liberalization and labor market adjustment in Brazil, Volume 1

Author:	Pavcnik, Nina; Blom, Andreas; Goldberg, Pinelopi; Schady, Norbert;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper series ; no. WPS 2982
Country:	Brazil;	Date Stored:	2003/04/04
Document Date:	2003/03/31	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	Latin America & Caribbean
Report Number:	WPS2982	Sub Sectors:	General industry and trade sector
SubTopics:	Environmental Economics & Policies; Water and Industry; Free Trade; Health Monitoring & Evaluation; Municipal Financial Management; Public Health Promotion	Volume No:	1

Summary: The authors study the impact of the 1988-94 trade liberalization in Brazil on wage distribution. They explore three main channels through which trade liberalization could have affected wage distribution: (1) increasing returns to skilled workers because of Hecksher-Ohlin adjustments to trade policy; (2) trade-induced skill-biased technological change; and (3) changes in industry wage premiums. The results suggest that trade reform in Brazil did contribute to the growing skill premium through skill-biased technological change, which was partially instigated by increased foreign competition. The authors also find that sector-specific returns to skill increased more in sectors with bigger tariff reductions. But they find little support for Hecksher-Ohlin type adjustments to trade reform. Overall, the effects of trade reform on wage inequality seem relatively small.


Official Documents Official, scanned versions of documents (may include signatures, etc.)
File Type		Description	File Size (mb)

	PDF 52 pages	Official version*	3.64 (approx.)
	Text	Text version**


Light-Weight Documents Lighter (less MB) documents which may or may not be the final, official version
File Type		Description	File Size (mb)

	PDF 46 pages	WPS2982	0.49

* The official version is derived from scanning the final, paper copy of the document and is the official,
archived version including all signatures, charts, etc.

** The text version is the OCR text of the final scanned version and is not an accurate representation of the final text.
It is provided solely to benefit users with slow connectivity.

Permanent URL for this page: http://go.worldbank.org/ZW012AMSV0