Trade reforms and industry wage premium: evidence from Argentina
This paper studies the impact of Argentina trade liberalization during the nineties on the industry wage premium structure. We find that accounting for unobserved time-invariant industry characteristics is crucial. When we do not control for industry fixed effects, we find that workers in protected...
Guardado en:
| Autores principales: | , |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Objeto de conferencia |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
2016
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/170437 |
| Aporte de: |
| id |
I19-R120-10915-170437 |
|---|---|
| record_format |
dspace |
| spelling |
I19-R120-10915-1704372024-09-20T20:44:17Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/170437 Trade reforms and industry wage premium: evidence from Argentina Falcone, Guillermo Galeano, Luciana María 2016-11 2016 2024-09-20T15:55:54Z en Ciencias Económicas skill premium industry premium trade liberalization Argentina This paper studies the impact of Argentina trade liberalization during the nineties on the industry wage premium structure. We find that accounting for unobserved time-invariant industry characteristics is crucial. When we do not control for industry fixed effects, we find that workers in protected sectors receive lower wages. However, introducing industry fixed effects reverses the results; protection creates sector specific rents that are partly translated to workers in terms of greater wages. Since Argentina’s tariff structure during this period protected relatively more high-skilled sectors, we conclude that nineties trade policy had an adverse effect on Argentina’s income distribution. Este trabajo estudia el impacto de la liberalización comercial argentina en los noventa sobre la estructura de las primas salariales sectoriales. Encontramos que resulta crucial controlar por características sectoriales inobservables e invariantes en el tiempo. Cuando no incluimos efectos fijos por industrias, encontramos que los trabajadores en sectores protegidos reciben menores salarios. Al incluirlos se revierten los resultados; la protección crea rentas sectoriales que se trasladan a los trabajadores vía mayores salarios. Como la estructura tarifaria argentina durante este período protegió relativamente más a sectores calificados, concluimos que la política comercial tuvo un efecto adverso en la distribución del ingreso. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Objeto de conferencia Objeto de conferencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf |
| institution |
Universidad Nacional de La Plata |
| institution_str |
I-19 |
| repository_str |
R-120 |
| collection |
SEDICI (UNLP) |
| language |
Inglés |
| topic |
Ciencias Económicas skill premium industry premium trade liberalization Argentina |
| spellingShingle |
Ciencias Económicas skill premium industry premium trade liberalization Argentina Falcone, Guillermo Galeano, Luciana María Trade reforms and industry wage premium: evidence from Argentina |
| topic_facet |
Ciencias Económicas skill premium industry premium trade liberalization Argentina |
| description |
This paper studies the impact of Argentina trade liberalization during the nineties on the industry wage premium structure. We find that accounting for unobserved time-invariant industry characteristics is crucial. When we do not control for industry fixed effects, we find that workers in protected sectors receive lower wages. However, introducing industry fixed effects reverses the results; protection creates sector specific rents that are partly translated to workers in terms of greater wages. Since Argentina’s tariff structure during this period protected relatively more high-skilled sectors, we conclude that nineties trade policy had an adverse effect on Argentina’s income distribution. |
| format |
Objeto de conferencia Objeto de conferencia |
| author |
Falcone, Guillermo Galeano, Luciana María |
| author_facet |
Falcone, Guillermo Galeano, Luciana María |
| author_sort |
Falcone, Guillermo |
| title |
Trade reforms and industry wage premium: evidence from Argentina |
| title_short |
Trade reforms and industry wage premium: evidence from Argentina |
| title_full |
Trade reforms and industry wage premium: evidence from Argentina |
| title_fullStr |
Trade reforms and industry wage premium: evidence from Argentina |
| title_full_unstemmed |
Trade reforms and industry wage premium: evidence from Argentina |
| title_sort |
trade reforms and industry wage premium: evidence from argentina |
| publishDate |
2016 |
| url |
http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/170437 |
| work_keys_str_mv |
AT falconeguillermo tradereformsandindustrywagepremiumevidencefromargentina AT galeanolucianamaria tradereformsandindustrywagepremiumevidencefromargentina |
| _version_ |
1824075655461994496 |