This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage
inequality—gender inequality. We consider a model where firms differ in their productivity …

This paper looks at the question of how import activities and productivity are related. Using
detailed production and cost data from a panel of Mexican manufacturing plants between …

This article looks at the relative importance of competing stories, particularly trade
liberalization and skill-biased technical change, to explain changes in the skill premium and …

This work investigates the impact of importing, exporting, and two-way trading on firm labor
demand in Turkish manufacturing. Adopting Multiple Propensity Score Matching techniques …

The location of economic activity both across and within countries has undergone dramatic
shifts over the last five decades. Three key trends stand out. First, cross-country inequality …

Using a panel of establishments from the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), I study the
impact of the 1991 trade liberalization episode in India on the employment share of women …

This article explores whether the nature of imports matters when examining the effects of
trade on plant-level labour outcomes. Previous literature that examines this question mainly …

This paper analyzes how access to imported inputs affects firms in developing countries,
where domestically produced high-quality inputs are relatively costly. We build an O-Ring …

Recent work has emphasized the effect of trade in intermediate inputs on plant productivity
(Amiti and Konings 2007), plant average wages (Amiti and Davis 2012), and product variety …

This paper extends the literature on trade liberalization and labour by investigating the
relationship between imports of intermediate inputs and plant-level workforce composition …