Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina

Autores
Falcone, Guillermo; Galeano, Luciana María
Año de publicación
2017
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This paper studies the impact of Argentina trade liberalization during the nineties on the industry wage premium structure. We find that accounting for unobserved timeinvariant industry characteristics is crucial. When we do not control for industry fixed effects, we find that workers in protected sectors receive lower wages. However, introducing industry fixed effects reverses the results; tariff protection creates sector specific rents that are in part translated to workers in terms of greater wages. Since Argentina’s tariff structure during this period protected relatively more sectors employing higher proportions of skilled workers, nineties trade policy may have had an adverse effect on Argentina’s income distribution.
Este trabajo estudia el impacto de la liberalización comercial argentina en los noventa sobre la estructura de las primas salariales sectoriales. Encontramos que resulta crucial controlar por características sectoriales inobservables e invariantes en el tiempo. Cuando no incluimos efectos fijos por industrias, encontramos que los trabajadores en sectores protegidos reciben menores salarios. Al incluirlos se revierten los resultados; la protección crea rentas sectoriales que se trasladan a los trabajadores vía mayores salarios. Como la estructura tarifaria argentina durante este período protegió relativamente más a sectores calificados, la política comercial podría haber tenido un efecto adverso en la distribución del ingreso.
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skill premium
industry premium
trade liberalization
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
title Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
spellingShingle Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
Falcone, Guillermo
Ciencias Económicas
skill premium
industry premium
trade liberalization
title_short Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
title_full Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
title_fullStr Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
title_sort Trade Reforms and Industry Wage Premium: Evidence from Argentina
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Falcone, Guillermo
Galeano, Luciana María
author Falcone, Guillermo
author_facet Falcone, Guillermo
Galeano, Luciana María
author_role author
author2 Galeano, Luciana María
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
skill premium
industry premium
trade liberalization
topic Ciencias Económicas
skill premium
industry premium
trade liberalization
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This paper studies the impact of Argentina trade liberalization during the nineties on the industry wage premium structure. We find that accounting for unobserved timeinvariant industry characteristics is crucial. When we do not control for industry fixed effects, we find that workers in protected sectors receive lower wages. However, introducing industry fixed effects reverses the results; tariff protection creates sector specific rents that are in part translated to workers in terms of greater wages. Since Argentina’s tariff structure during this period protected relatively more sectors employing higher proportions of skilled workers, nineties trade policy may have had an adverse effect on Argentina’s income distribution.
Este trabajo estudia el impacto de la liberalización comercial argentina en los noventa sobre la estructura de las primas salariales sectoriales. Encontramos que resulta crucial controlar por características sectoriales inobservables e invariantes en el tiempo. Cuando no incluimos efectos fijos por industrias, encontramos que los trabajadores en sectores protegidos reciben menores salarios. Al incluirlos se revierten los resultados; la protección crea rentas sectoriales que se trasladan a los trabajadores vía mayores salarios. Como la estructura tarifaria argentina durante este período protegió relativamente más a sectores calificados, la política comercial podría haber tenido un efecto adverso en la distribución del ingreso.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
description This paper studies the impact of Argentina trade liberalization during the nineties on the industry wage premium structure. We find that accounting for unobserved timeinvariant industry characteristics is crucial. When we do not control for industry fixed effects, we find that workers in protected sectors receive lower wages. However, introducing industry fixed effects reverses the results; tariff protection creates sector specific rents that are in part translated to workers in terms of greater wages. Since Argentina’s tariff structure during this period protected relatively more sectors employing higher proportions of skilled workers, nineties trade policy may have had an adverse effect on Argentina’s income distribution.
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