scholarly journals Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium: A Local Labor Markets Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 551-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Dix-Carneiro ◽  
Brian K. Kovak
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Skill Premium ◽  
Simple Equation ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Local Labor Markets ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Household Survey Data

We develop a specific-factors model of regional economies that includes two types of workers, skilled and unskilled. The model delivers a simple equation relating trade-induced local shocks to changes in local skill premia. We apply the methodology to Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization and find statistically significant but modest effects of liberalization on the evolution of the skill premium between 1991 and 2010. The methodology uses widely available household survey data and can easily be applied to other countries and liberalization episodes.

scholarly journals Labor markets as a transmission channel from growth to poverty reduction: Evidence from Vietnam and Burkina Faso, 1993-2003

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (178-179) ◽  
pp. 72-121
Author(s):  
Sabine Bernab ◽  
Gorana Krstic
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Transmission Channel ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Household Survey Data

Employment is widely perceived as being amongst the most important channels for translating growth into poverty reduction. This paper focuses on two countries, Burkina Faso and Vietnam, with very distinct patterns of growth and poverty reduction between 1993-2003. We use household survey data to examine how employment transmitted growth to the poor in these two countries and find that there are two important factors that maximize the effectiveness of this transmission channel: (1) an increase in labor productivity that is (a) broad based and (b) concentrated in sectors where the poor are disproportionately employed or to which they have access, and (2) strong (domestic and foreign) demand for the goods and services produced by the poor, and access to these markets.

Queens of the Desert: Convictism and Marital Attitudes across Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 457-462
Author(s):  
Victoria Baranov ◽  
Ralph De Haas ◽  
Pauline Grosjean
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Spatial Variation ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Founder Populations ◽  
Household Survey Data ◽  
Combined Data

We merge data on spatial variation in the presence of convicts across eighteenth and nineteenth century Australia with results from the country's 2017 poll on same-sex marriage and with household survey data. These combined data allow us to identify the lasting impact of convict colonization on social norms about marriage. We find that in areas with higher historical convict concentrations, more Australians recently voted in favor of same-sex marriage and hold liberal views about marriage more generally. Our results highlight how founder populations can have lasting effects on locally held social norms.

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