Trade, firms, and wages
Subtitle: theory and evidence
By: Mary Amiti, Donald R. Davis.
Contributors: Davis, Donald R. 1956-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 14106; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 14106.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "How does trade liberalization affect wages? This is the first paper to consider in theory and data how the impact of final and intermediate input tariff cuts on workers' wages varies with the global engagement of their firm.  Our model predicts that a fall in output tariffs lowers wages at import-competing firms, but boosts wages at exporting firms.  Similarly, a fall in input tariffs raises wages at import-using firms relative to those at firms that only source locally.  Using highly detailed Indonesian manufacturing census data for the period 1991 to 2000, we find considerable support for the model's predictions"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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