Margins of labor market adjustment to trade

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K.
• 署名单位: Duke University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Carnegie Mellon University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2019.01.005
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 125-142
• 关键词: trade liberalization; BRAZIL; EMPLOYMENT; earnings; Informal labor markets

摘要

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. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.