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Trade liberalization, employment flows, and wage inequality in Brazil (English)

Using nationally representative, economywide data, this paper investigates the relative importance of trade-mandated effects on industry wage premia; industry and economywide skill premia; and employment flows in accounting for changes in the wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade liberalization appears to have made a significant contribution toward a reduction in wage inequality...
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Ferreira,Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe G.; Wai-Poi,Matthew Grant.

Trade liberalization, employment flows, and wage inequality in Brazil (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 4108 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/915661468226758546

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