The Response of the Informal Sector to Trade Liberalization

By P. Goldberg, Nina Pavcnik. 2003

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Poverty, Labor Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia (2015, unknown): “focus on formal manufacturing employment, Goldberg and Pavcnik (2003) also document an increase in informality in the sectors most exposed to tariff cuts in Colombia, although not in Brazil.”
Who Benefited from Trade Liberalization in Mexico? Measuring the Effects on Household Welfare (2004, background): “This paper belongs to this latter category which goes back to Deaton (1989).1 Recent work in that tradition includes Levinshon (1999), Edmonds and Pavcnik (2003), Goldberg and Pavcnik (2003) and Porto (2003).”
Moving Out of Agriculture: Structural Change in Vietnam (2013, unknown): “…and Pavcnik 2013) and workers employed in the informal sector tend to earn lower wages than observationally similar workers in the formal sector (Goldberg and Pavcnik 2003, 10 The data series are “Exports of goods by kind of economic sector and by commodity group” and “Imports of goods by kind…”
Trade and Employment: Stylized Facts and Research Findings (2005, unknown): “In a related paper, Goldberg and Pavcnik (2003) find that while the share of informal workers increased in Colombia in the aftermath of the trade reforms, the entire increase is accounted for by within-industry changes from the formal to the informal sector, rather than between industry shifts of…”
Exporting Out of Poverty: Provincial Poverty in Vietnam and U.S. Market Access (2011, unknown): “4 For recent empirical evidence of the impact of trade on labour markets in developing countries see Attanasio, Goldberg and Pavcnik (2004), Goldberg and Pavcnik (2003), Pavcnik, Blom, Goldberg, and Schady (2004), Galiani and Sanguinetti (2003), and Goldberg and Pavcnik (2005), among others.”
The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows (2007, background): “We confirm Goldberg and Pavcnik’s (2003) findings that the vast majority (88%) of the change in informality takes place within sectors and hence seek identification off the variation in the impact of reforms across sectors.”