This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing
countries—the quality-upgrading mechanism—and investigates its empirical implications in …

The authors discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income
inequality in developing countries. They begin with a discussion of conceptual issues …

This paper develops a new framework for examining the determinants of wage distributions
that emphasizes within‐industry reallocation, labor market frictions, and differences in …

Prices are typically used as proxies for countries' export quality. I relax this strong
assumption by exploiting both price and quantity information to estimate the quality of …

Numerous studies on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned
firms than in domestically owned firms. This, however, does not necessarily imply that the …

This paper uses a panel of firms from the Mexican Economic Censuses and analyzes at the
microeconomic level how labor markets adapt to the adoption of information and …

This study tests whether manufacturing exporters pay more to educated workers in an effort
to ascertain whether the productivity of human capital is raised by exports. Using a panel of …

This chapter examines the relationship between wages and levels of trade and FDI
openness in twenty-nine sectors of the Chilean economy. Over the last four decades, this …

Despite a general trend of increasing labor income inequality, there have been differences
in the timing, intensity and even direction of these changes across OECD countries. These …

We examine the relationship between technological complexity and wage inequality, using
an efficiency wage model that adopts Kremer's O‐ring production function. The model has …