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High-income export destinations, quality and wages
(Elsevier, 2016-01)
This paper establishes a link between the income level of the destination countries and the level of average wages in the exporting country across the world economy. We use cross-country panel data to set up an instrumental ...
The economics of wage-led recovery: analysis and policy recommendations
(2011-07)
The financial crisis and Great Recession have been followed by a jobs shortage crisis that most forecasts predict will persist for years given current policies. This paper argues for a wage-led recovery and growth program ...
Labor earnings dynamics in post-stabilization Brazil
(2015-06-15)
This paper analyzes both the levels and evolution of wage inequality in the Brazilian formal labor market using administrative data from the Brazilian Ministry of Labor (RAIS) from 1994 to 2009. After the covariance structure ...
Inter-Industry wage differentials and earnings inequality in Brazil
(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-11)
This paper shows that there is a large inter-industry wage dispersion in the Brazilian labor market, that persists after controlling for differences in workers’ productive attributes and job characteristics. The wage ...
Wage Differentials: Trade Openness and Wage Bargaining
(Sociedade Brasileira de Econometria, 2014)
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the US Border
(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)
We estimate the “place premium”—the wage gain that accrues to foreign
workers who arrive to work in the United States. First, we estimate the predicted,
purchasing-power adjusted wages of people inside and outside the ...
Relative wage structure in Chile, 1957 - 1992: Changes in the structure of demand for schooling
(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-11)
It has traditionally been hypothesized that moving from Protectionist to liberalized trade in developing countries (LDCs) will decrease the relative wages of skilled versus unskilled labor (or “relative wages”). Trade ...
From Individual Wage to Household’s Labor Income: Consequences of Women’s Labor Force Incorporation in Argentina, 1974–2018
(SAGE Publications, 2020-12)
The Argentinean real wage has suffered a profound deterioration since the mid-1970s. Simultaneously, there was a structural increase in women’s labor market participation. Consequently, looking at individual wages as ...