Arbeitspapier

Costs and benefits of trade shocks: Evidence from Chilean local labor markets

We study Chile's labor market responses to trade shocks during 1996-2006, exploiting spatial and time variations in trade exposure arising from initial differences in industry specialization across local labor markets and the evolution of shocks across industries. We take advantage of China's supply and demand's worldwide shocks to instrument for Chinese import competition and demand for Chilean exports. Our main finding is that increasing manufacturing import competition implied a significant rise in labor informality in more exposed local markets, especially among young and unskilled workers. These groups also suffered significant relative wage losses. Meanwhile, locations that benefited most from the increased demand for primary products experienced a relative increase in employment, particularly among young individuals, and reallocation from self-employment towards salaried jobs in the formal sector, along with relative wage gains among old-age workers. Interestingly, these areas experienced a smaller increase in tertiary education enrollment rates than less exposed areas.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Documento de Trabajo ; No. 300

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Empirical Studies of Trade
Trade and Labor Market Interactions
Labor Demand
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
Commodity Markets
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
Thema
Trade Shocks
Local Labor Markets
Employment
Informality
Chile

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
César, Andrés
Falcone, Guillermo
Gasparini, Leonardo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
(wo)
La Plata
(wann)
2022

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • César, Andrés
  • Falcone, Guillermo
  • Gasparini, Leonardo
  • Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)

Entstanden

  • 2022

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