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 The impact of trade liberalisation on the informal sector in Brazil
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research would be to analyse what happened to the size of the queue for formal jobs after the trade liberalisation. Unfortunately, we do not have surveys that contain a question similar to the one used in Soares (2004) to identify informal workers in the queue for formal jobs fo...
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research would be to analyse what happened to the size of the queue for formal jobs after the trade liberalisation. Unfortunately, we do not have surveys that contain a question similar to the one used in Soares (2004) to identify informal workers in the queue for formal jobs for periods after the trade liberalisation. However, as the wage differential is one of the main determinants of the queue for formal jobs, it is reasonable to infer that the size of the queue may have diminished after trade
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research would be to analyse what happened to the size <span class="highlight">of</span> the <span class="highlight">queue</span> for formal jobs after the trade liberalisation. Unfortunately, we do not have surveys that contain a question similar to the one used in Soares (2004) to identify informal workers in the <span class="highlight">queue</span> for formal jobs for periods after the trade liberalisation. However, as the wage differential is one <span class="highlight">of</span> the main determinants <span class="highlight">of</span> the <span class="highlight">queue</span> for formal jobs, it is reasonable to infer that the size <span class="highlight">of</span> the <span class="highlight">queue</span> may have diminished after trade
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&rdquo;. American Economic Review, Vol.66 N.1 pp. 178-183. Slaughter, Matthew, J. (2001) International Trade and Labor-Demand Elasticities. Journal <span class="highlight">of</span> International Economics. Vol.54 (11) pp.27-56. Soares, F. V. (2004) ``Do Informal Workers <span class="highlight">Queue</span> for Formal Jobs inBrazil?''. Mimeo. IPEA. Wood (1997) &ldquo;Openness and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Latin American Challenge to East Asian Conventional Wisdom&rdquo;. World Bank Economic Review 11: 33-58.