Margins of labor market adjustment to trade
By Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Brian Kovak. Journal of International Economics, 2019
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We use both longitudinal administrative data and cross-sectional household survey data to study the margins of labor market adjustment following Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization. We document how workers and regional labor markets adjust to trade-induced changes in local labor demand, examining various adjustment margins, including earnings and wage changes; interregional migration; shifts between tradable and nontradable employment; and shifts between formal employment, informal employment, and non-employment. Our results provide insight into the regional labor market effects of trade, and have important implications for policies that address informal employment and that assist trade-displaced workers.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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- Informality: Causes and Consequences for Development (2020, methodology): “More recently, however, Meghir et al. (2015), Haanwinckel & Soares (2016) and Dix-Carneiro et al. (2019) find no unemployment effects from higher enforcement, while Meghir et al. (2015) even show that it could lead to higher wages and lower inequality among their sample of low-skill males in the…”
- The Impact of Trade on Inequality in Developing Countries (2017, unknown): “The informal sector plays an important role, especially over the long run (Dix-Carneiro and Kovak 2017).”