Informal Jobs and Trade Liberalisation in Argentina

Autores
Acosta, Pablo Ariel; Montes Rojas, Gabriel Victorio
Año de publicación
2014
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Rapid trade liberalisation can exert profound effects on labour markets. Domestic firms, to sustain competitiveness for survival, could react by cutting labour benefits to achieve cost reductions. Alternatively, trade liberalisation may alter the industry composition of firms, changing the aggregate formality rates. This paper studies the relationship between trade liberalisation and informality in Argentina. Using manufacturing industry-level data for 1992-2003, the results confirm the hypothesis that trade increases informality in industries that experience sudden foreign competition. This explains about a third of the increase in informality. Sectors with higher investment ratios are able to neutralise and reverse this effect.
Fil: Acosta, Pablo Ariel. The World Bank; Estados Unidos
Fil: Montes Rojas, Gabriel Victorio. Universidad de San Andrés; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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Trade Liberalization
Argentina
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title Informal Jobs and Trade Liberalisation in Argentina
spellingShingle Informal Jobs and Trade Liberalisation in Argentina
Acosta, Pablo Ariel
Trade Liberalization
Argentina
title_short Informal Jobs and Trade Liberalisation in Argentina
title_full Informal Jobs and Trade Liberalisation in Argentina
title_fullStr Informal Jobs and Trade Liberalisation in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Informal Jobs and Trade Liberalisation in Argentina
title_sort Informal Jobs and Trade Liberalisation in Argentina
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Acosta, Pablo Ariel
Montes Rojas, Gabriel Victorio
author Acosta, Pablo Ariel
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Montes Rojas, Gabriel Victorio
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Argentina
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Argentina
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Rapid trade liberalisation can exert profound effects on labour markets. Domestic firms, to sustain competitiveness for survival, could react by cutting labour benefits to achieve cost reductions. Alternatively, trade liberalisation may alter the industry composition of firms, changing the aggregate formality rates. This paper studies the relationship between trade liberalisation and informality in Argentina. Using manufacturing industry-level data for 1992-2003, the results confirm the hypothesis that trade increases informality in industries that experience sudden foreign competition. This explains about a third of the increase in informality. Sectors with higher investment ratios are able to neutralise and reverse this effect.
Fil: Acosta, Pablo Ariel. The World Bank; Estados Unidos
Fil: Montes Rojas, Gabriel Victorio. Universidad de San Andrés; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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