Winners and Losers from a Commodities-for-Manufactures Trade Boom

Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo

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“…and 15.1%, respectively. Exports were mostly of agricultural and extractive products, whereas imports were mostly from manufactured goods (Costa et al, 2016 in Latin America, including Brazil. They find that among married women, the largest labor force reservoir in these economies, the labor participation of skilled workers is more responsive to changes in demand than that of unskilled workers, with the elasticities for skilled workers in this groups being around 20-30% larger than for the unskilled.…”

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“…However, there is evidence of differential impacts across regions based on their initial basket of industries. Costa et al (2016) uses these differences to investigate the impact of the surge in China's import penetration and expanded demand for some Brazilian products. Using data from the Brazilian Census representative of the whole economy, they show that local labor markets 12 at the 80th percentile of exposure to increased demand experienced a 0.93 p.p.…”

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Decline In Wage Inequality In Brazil : A Survey

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Portella²

2019

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“…Section 2 shows that countries that benefited from the commodity boom in South America experienced stronger growth and much deeper reduction in inequality during the 2000s compared with the net commodity importers in Central America and Mexico.These developments motivate the question of what was the role of the commodity boom in the reduction in inequality in the 2000s? Evidence from Brazil shows that booming demand for commodities led to broad-based wage gains in commodity-rich regions(Costa, Garred, and Pessoa 2016) and sectors (Adao 2015). This type of mechanism reduced between-region and between-sector wage inequality, as winning sectors and regions in Brazil had lower initial average wages.…”

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Twenty Years of Wage Inequality in Latin America

Messina

Silva

2019

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This article documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp reduction starting in 2002. The Gini coefficient of wages increased from 42 to 44 between 1995 and 2002 and declined to 39 by 2015. Between 2002 and 2015, the 90/10 log hourly earnings ratio decreased by 26 percent. The decline since 2002 was characterized by rising wages across the board, but especially at the bottom of the wage distribution in each country. Triggered by a rapid expansion of educational attainment, the wages of college and high school graduates fell relative to the wages of workers with only primary education. The premium for labor market experience also fell significantly. However, the compression of wages was not entirely driven by changes in the wage structure across skill groups. Two-thirds of the decline in the variance of wages took place within skill groups. Changes in the sectoral, occupational, and formal/informal composition of jobs matter for the process of reduction in inequality, but they do not fully account for the fall in within-skill variance. Evidence based on longitudinal matched employer-employee administrative data suggests that an important driver was falling wage dispersion across firms.

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“…This term captures the substitution between US export products and their competitors, with higher levels of T j st raising demand for US exports. 8 The final term in the export equation is the total imports by j from other exporters…”

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Magnification of the ‘China Shock’ Through the U.S. Housing Market

Xu¹,

Ma²,

Feenstra³

2019

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We study the employment responses to the expansion of US exports and to the import competition, especially from China. We find that although import competition reduces jobs, export expansion also creates a substantial number of jobs. At the industry level, job gains due to US export expansion largely offset job losses due to Chinese import competition, resulting in a net gain of 379 thousand jobs over 1991-2011 in our preferred estimate. At the commuting zone level, job gains and losses are roughly balanced, with a slight net loss of 68 thousand jobs and a substantial range around this preferred estimate depending on the specification.

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Winners and Losers from a Commodities-for-Manufactures Trade Boom

Cited by 68 publications

References 17 publications

Decline In Wage Inequality In Brazil : A Survey

Decline In Wage Inequality In Brazil : A Survey

Twenty Years of Wage Inequality in Latin America

Magnification of the ‘China Shock’ Through the U.S. Housing Market

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