Workers and Trade Liberalization: The Impact of Trade Reforms in Mexico on Wages and Employment

By Zadia M. Feliciano. 2001

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Globalization and Inequality (2011, background): “Feliciano, Z. (1993). “Workers and Trade Liberalization: The Impact of Trade Reforms in Mexico on Wages and Employment.” (mimeo) Harvard University. Fields, Gary. 1994. “Changing Labor Market Conditions and Economic Development in Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, China.” The ”
Trade liberalization, employment flows, and wage inequality in Brazil (2007, background): “…indicator of inequality in household incomes, it has been the focus of most empirical work.11 Evidence of a rising skills gap has been comprehensively established for Mexico, by Feenstra and Hanson (1995), Cragg and Epelbaum (1996), Feliciano (2001), and Hanson and Harrison (1999), among others.”
Trade, Inequality, and Poverty: What Do We Know? (2004, methodology): “…Blom, Goldberg, and Schady (2004) for Brazil), while others find a positive association between tariff declines and industry wage premiums (Goldberg and Pavcnik (2004) for Colombia).10 Feliciano (2001) reports a positive association between declines in import licenses and industry wage premiums.”
Trade reforms and wage inequality in Colombia (2004, neutral): “…note that the stability of the employment patterns is consistent with the evidence from Mexico; Revenga (1997), Hanson and Harrison (1999), and Feliciano (2001) all report that the adjustment of the Mexican labor market to trade liberalization occurred through relative wage adjustments and…”
Technology, trade, and wage inequality in Mexico before and after NAFTA (2003, background): “4 See, for example, Hanson and Harrison (1999), Cragg and Epelbaum (1996), Epelbaum and Cragg (1997), Revenga (1997), Feliciano (2001), Meza (1999), Robertson (2001), and Cañonero and Werner (2002) for the case of Mexico; Beyer, et al. (1999) for Chile; Galiani and Sanguinetti (2003) for Argentina; ”
The Impact of Trade on Technology and Skill Upgrading Evidence from Argentina (2007, result): “Feliciano (2001) finds similar results for Mexico, and Verhoogen (2004) reports employment shifts towards unskilled labor intensive industries, coincident with rising skill premia.”
What Has Happened to Wages in Mexico since NAFTA (2003, background): “In related work, Feliciano (2001) finds that between 1986 and 1990 wage dispersion in Mexico rose more in tradables than in non-tradables.”
TRADE LIBERALISATION A ND WAGES IN D EVELOPING C OUNTRIES (2004, neutral): “Feliciano (2001) and Cragg and Epelbaum (1996) find that the increase in the returns to education in Mexico contributed to the rise of relative wages of skilled workers.”