Informal jobs and trade liberalisation in Argentina

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Rapid trade liberalisation can exert profound effects on labour markets. Domestic firms, to sustain competitiveness for survival, could react through cutting labour benefits to achieve cost reductions. Alternatively, trade liberalisation may alter the industry composition of firms changing the aggre...

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Autores principales: Acosta, Pablo, Montes-Rojas, Gabriel
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: 2013
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Comercio
Empresa
Políticas económicas
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spelling I28-R145-docin_iiep_003_oai2022-09-29 Acosta, Pablo Montes-Rojas, Gabriel 2013-12-00 Rapid trade liberalisation can exert profound effects on labour markets. Domestic firms, to sustain competitiveness for survival, could react through 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 neutralize and reverse this effect. Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Sebastian Galiani and Guido Porto for kindly sharing the data on ad valorem import import tariffs by manufacturing sector. The data and codes are available upon request to the authors. Fil: Acosta, Pablo. Fil: Montes-Rojas, Gabriel. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Investigador en el Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política de Buenos Aires. Argentina application/pdf docin_iiep_003 http://bibliotecadigital.econ.uba.ar/econ/collection/docin/document/docin_iiep_003 spa info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar/ Comercio Empresa Políticas económicas Informal jobs and trade liberalisation in Argentina info:eu-repo/semantics/report info:ar-repo/semantics/informe técnico info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=docin&d=docin_iiep_003_oai
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Empresa
Políticas económicas
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Empresa
Políticas económicas
Acosta, Pablo
Montes-Rojas, Gabriel
Informal jobs and trade liberalisation in Argentina
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Empresa
Políticas económicas
description Rapid trade liberalisation can exert profound effects on labour markets. Domestic firms, to sustain competitiveness for survival, could react through 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 neutralize and reverse this effect. Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Sebastian Galiani and Guido Porto for kindly sharing the data on ad valorem import import tariffs by manufacturing sector. The data and codes are available upon request to the authors.
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