Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina

This paper studies the impact of Argentina trade liberalization during the nineties on the industry wage premium structure. We find that accounting for unobserved timeinvariant industry characteristics is crucial. When we do not control for industry fixed effects, we find that workers in protected s...

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Autores principales: Falcone, Guillermo, Galeano, Luciana María
Formato: Articulo Documento de trabajo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/65318
http://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/wp-content/uploads/doc_cedlas212.pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
skill premium
industry premium
trade liberalization
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skill premium
industry premium
trade liberalization
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Galeano, Luciana María
Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
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skill premium
industry premium
trade liberalization
description This paper studies the impact of Argentina trade liberalization during the nineties on the industry wage premium structure. We find that accounting for unobserved timeinvariant industry characteristics is crucial. When we do not control for industry fixed effects, we find that workers in protected sectors receive lower wages. However, introducing industry fixed effects reverses the results; tariff protection creates sector specific rents that are in part translated to workers in terms of greater wages. Since Argentina’s tariff structure during this period protected relatively more sectors employing higher proportions of skilled workers, nineties trade policy may have had an adverse effect on Argentina’s income distribution.
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title Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
title_short Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
title_full Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
title_fullStr Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
title_sort trade reforms and industry wage premium: evidence from argentina
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