Trade liberalisation and manufacturing wage premiums: Evidence from Thailand

Trade Liberalisation and Plant Exit in New Zealand Manufacturing

Data on New Zealand manufacturing plants are used to examine the impact of trade liberalisation on plant exit. Recent theories suggest that the prospect of a declining market might lead firms to strategic behaviour that causes low cost plants to exit first. This hypothesis is generally unsupported. Surviving plants were larger, lower cost, and were owned by specialised firms with few plants. Pl...

Trade Liberalisation and Tuberculosis

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Upstreamness, Exports, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Data

[Abstract] In this paper we investigate within-firm wage inequality across heterogeneous industries that hold different positions in the domestic value chain, and across heterogeneous firms that have different exposure to trade. We find that the wage inequality problem is more severe in upstream industries than in downstream ones, and among firms with greater exposure to trade (i.e., larger exp...

Title: “Testing for the effects of Trade Liberalisation in Brazil: Evidence from Cross-section panel of Manufacturing Industries”

Introduction International trade and industrialisation have been central concerns in the debate on development theory and policy for many years. International Finance Institutions, such as World Bank and IMF introduced, during the 80s, strong revisions of their lending mechanisms by adding the known conditinalities, which included the trade liberalisation policies particularly concerning LDCs. ...

TRADE LIBERALISATION Lecture Notes