Volume/Issue: 2005/20
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Prachi Mishra
, and
Utsav Kumar
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
January
2005
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451860399.001
ISBN: 9781451860399
We evaluate empirically the impact of the dramatic 1991 trade liberalization in India on the industry wage structure. The empirical strategy uses variation in industry wage premiums and trade policy across industri...
Series: Economic Issues
Author(s):
Matthew Slaughter
, and
Phillip Swagel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
29
September
1997
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557756794.051
ISBN: 9781557756794
Increased globalization - the international integration of markets for goods, technology, labor, and capital - has coincided in the past 20 years with a shift in demand from less-skilled workers to those with more...
Volume/Issue: 1997/43
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Phillip Swagel
, and
Matthew Slaughter
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
April
1997
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451846294.001
ISBN: 9781451846294
This paper examines the effect of globalization on labor markets in the advanced economies, focusing particularly on the claim that increased economic integration has widened the gap between the wages of more skill...