Economic Integration Effects on Trade Margins : Sectoral Evidence from Latin America

Popular Support for Regional Economic Integration in Latin America

Regional economic integration schemes abound in Latin America, yet very little is known about the degree of popular support for such programmes. Now that democratic regimes rule in almost all of Latin America, public opinion can have an important impact on national policies. This paper examines the attitudes toward economic integration in  mainland Latin American countries with interview data...

Evidence for Latin America

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on the differences in educational outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage skill differentials and public social ...

The Gains of Economic Integration: Substantive Evidence for an Australia-Korea Free Trade Agreement

Abstract On 6 December 2006, Australia and Korea announced a joint study on a possible Australia-Korea free trade agreement (AKFTA) to promote trade and economic relations between the two countries. The paper provides empirical evidence on the possible gains and their transmission mechanism from this agreement. Significantly, it uses a new economic policy modelling approach, the endogenous grav...

The Economic Effects of Unions in Latin America

Ever since H. G. Lewis’s classic (1963) study of union relative wages, the empirical study of the economic effects of trade unions has been a thriving industry in the U.S. Since that time, the empirical analysis of unions’ effects has spread to encompass outcomes other than wages --including profits, productivity and employment—and to consider unionism in other countries, including the U.K. and...

ECONOMIC COMMSSION FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Office in Brazil Integration in Latin America – Trends and Challenges