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Trade Liberalization and Intersectoral Labor Movements, working paper, Stanford Graduate School of Business (2001)
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@MISC{Wacziarg01tradeliberalization,
author = {Romain Wacziarg and Jessica Seddon Wallack and Robert Flanagan and Daniel Kessler and John Mcmillan and Helen Milner and Dani Rodrik and Carmen Pagès-serra},
title = {Trade Liberalization and Intersectoral Labor Movements, working paper, Stanford Graduate School of Business},
year = {2001}
}
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Abstract
This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization episodes on movements of labor across sectors. The aim is to assess empirically whether increased trade openness leads to increased structural change and, if so, to what extent. Results for a set of 25 liberalization episodes suggest weakly negative effects of liberalization on the extent of intersectoral labor shifts at the economywide 1-digit level of disaggregation. We do uncover increased sectoral change after liberalization at the 3-digit level within manufacturing, although the estimated effects are statistically weak and small in magnitude. The effects of liberalization on labor shifts differ across individual countries, in a way related to the scope and depth of reforms.
