Trade liberalization and the wage skill premium: Evidence from Indonesia

M Amiti, L Cameron - Journal of International Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, we analyze the effect of reducing import tariffs on intermediate inputs and final
goods on the wage skill premium within firms in Indonesia–a country with a high share of …

Measured skill premia and input trade liberalization: Evidence from Chinese firms

B Chen, M Yu, Z Yu - Journal of International Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Using Chinese firm-level production data, this paper developed a Mincer (1974)-type
approach to investigate the impact of input trade liberalization on firms' wage inequality …

Trade, firms, and wages: Theory and evidence

M Amiti, DR Davis - The Review of economic studies, 2012 - academic.oup.com
How does trade liberalization affect wages? This is the first paper to consider in theory and
data how the impact of final and intermediate input tariff cuts on workers' wages varies with …

Trade liberalization and wage inequality: Evidence from India

U Kumar, P Mishra - Review of Development Economics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We evaluate empirically the impact of the dramatic 1991 trade liberalization in India on the
industry wage structure. The empirical strategy uses variation in industry wage premiums …

Trade liberalization, intermediate inputs, and productivity: Evidence from Indonesia

M Amiti, J Konings - American economic review, 2007 - aeaweb.org
This paper estimates the productivity gains from reducing tariffs on final goods and from
reducing tariffs on intermediate inputs. Lower output tariffs can increase productivity by …

International trade, technology, and the skill premium

A Burstein, J Vogel - Journal of Political Economy, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
What are the consequences of international trade on the skill premium? We incorporate skill-
intensity differences across firms and sectors into a standard model of international trade …

Trade-induced structural change and the skill premium

J Cravino, S Sotelo - American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2019 - aeaweb.org
We study how international trade affects manufacturing employment and the relative wage of
unskilled workers when goods and services are traded with different intensities …

Impact of trade liberalization on firm's labour demand by skill: The case of Tunisian manufacturing

RBA Mouelhi - Labour economics, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the impact of the trade liberalization process in Tunisia on
employment by distinguishing different skills and different types of firms using micro level …

Exporting, skills and wage inequality

MW Klein, C Moser, DM Urban - Labour Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
International trade has been cited as a source of widening wage inequality in industrial
nations. Most previous empirical evidence supports this claim by showing an effect in which …

Employment and wage effects of trade liberalization: the case of Mexican manufacturing

A Revenga - Journal of labor Economics, 1997 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article analyzes the effect of trade liberalization on employment and wages in the
Mexican manufacturing sector. The study documents that many of the rents generated by …