Prompted by new data and a renewed concern about equality of opportunity, the study of
intergenerational mobility has flourished in Latin America in the past decade. Although …

We study the evolution of trade liberalization's effects on Brazilian local labor markets.
Regions facing larger tariff cuts experienced prolonged declines in formal sector …

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 …

While neoclassical theory emphasizes the impact of trade on wage inequality between
occupations and sectors, more recent theories of firm heterogeneity point to the impact of …

Latin America and the Caribbean has been one of the regions of the world with the greatest
inequality. This book explores why the region suffers from such persistent inequality …

A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing
countries has led to much concern about the losers from rising import competition in …

This article reviews evidence on intergenerational social mobility in Latin America. Results
indicate that mobility is low in the region, even when compared with the United States and …

Labor turnover is a commonly cited mechanism for the transmission of technology from
multinational to domestic firms. Using a matched establishment-worker database from Brazil …

This volume is a successor of sorts to the Institute's 1986 volume Toward Renewed
Economic Growth in Latin America, which blazed the trail for the market-oriented economic …

We develop a specific-factors model of regional economies that includes two types of
workers, skilled and unskilled. The model delivers a simple equation relating trade-induced …