TY  - JOUR
AU  - Dix-Carneiro, Rafael
AU  - Kovak, Brian K
TI  - Margins of Labor Market Adjustment to Trade
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 23595
PY  - 2017
Y2  - July 2017
DO  - 10.3386/w23595
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23595
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23595.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Rafael Dix-Carneiro
Department of Economics
Duke University
210A Social Sciences Building
Durham, NC 27708
E-Mail: rafael.dix.carneiro@duke.edu

Brian K. Kovak
H. John Heinz III College
Carnegie Mellon University
4800 Forbes Avenue, HBH 3012
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Tel: 412/268-5223
Fax: 412/268-4487
E-Mail: bkovak@cmu.edu
M1  - published as Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Brian K. Kovak. "Margins of Labor Market Adjustment to Trade," in Gordon H. Hanson and Stephen J. Redding, organizers, "Trade and Labor Markets" Elsevier, Journal of International Economics (2018)

AB  - We use both longitudinal administrative data and cross-sectional household survey data to study the margins of labor market adjustment following Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization. We document how workers and regional labor markets adjust to trade-induced changes in local labor demand, examining various adjustment margins, including earnings and wage changes; interregional migration; shifts between tradable and nontradable employment; and shifts between formal employment, informal employment, and non-employment. Our results provide insight into the regional labor market effects of trade, and have important implications for policies that address informal employment and that assist trade-displaced workers.
ER  -