Relative prices and wage inequality: evidence from Mexico

By Raymond Robertson. 2004

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Stolper-Samuelson Is Dead: And Other Crimes of Both Theory and Data (2007, background): “This might help to understand the contrast in experience between Mexico’s an early unilateral liberalization and the later opening to NAFTA (see Robertson 2004).”
Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries (2007, background): “First, trade liberalization can lead to greater price volatility and productivity shocks (as in Rodrik (1997, 1998)), which in turn generates greater volatility in wages and employment. Scheve and Slaughter (2002) convincingly argue that empirical studies do not reach a consensus on whether trade li”
Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence (2014, unknown): “12See Feenstra and Hanson (1999), Harrigan (2000), Robertson (2004), and Blum (2008) for approaches with perfect labor mobility, and Helpman, Itskhoki, and Redding (2010), Helpman, Itskhoki, Muendler, and Redding (2012), Coşar (2011), Dix-Carneiro (2011), and Coşar, Guner and Tybout (2011) for…”
The Rise of the East and the Far East: German Labor Markets and Trade Integration (2014, background): “There is substantial variation in sectoral employment patterns at the regional level, also within the manufacturing sector where commodity trade occurs.”
Does economic globalisation affect income inequality? A meta‐analysis (2020, background): “…regarding the effect of trade globalisation: while several papers find (partial) empirical support for the Stolper-Samuelson theorem (e.g. Robertson 2004; Chiquiar 2008; Roser and Crespo Cuaresma 2016), others reject it based on econometric hypothesis tests (e.g. Goldberg and Pavncik…”
Technology, trade, and wage inequality in Mexico before and after NAFTA (2003, background): “On the other hand, it is also important to note that our data do not support the interpretation, advanced by Robertson (2001), that wage inequality in Mexico fell in the post-NAFTA period.16 Instead, our results show a slight increase in inequality when we look at the aggregate level, or a…”