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https://dev.focus.bse.eu Research insights from the Barcelona School of Economics Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:48:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.13 https://dev.focus.bse.eu/wp-content/uploads/cropped-bse-focus-site-icon-32x32.png https://dev.focus.bse.eu 32 32 https://dev.focus.bse.eu/globalisation-job-security-wages/ Thu, 07 Aug 2014 09:05:46 +0000 https://focus.barcelonagse.eu/?p=418 Kerem Cosar, Nezih Guner, and James R. Tybout Trade liberalisations are often accompanied by labour market reforms, making it difficult to isolate their effects. This column discusses the effects of trade liberalisation, globalisation, and labour-market reforms on the Colombian labour market. Reduced trade frictions increased cross-firm wage inequality and shifted the firm-size distribution rightward, with offsetting effects on overall wage inequality. Average income increased, but the gains were concentrated among employees of large, productive firms with access to export markets. Greater trade openness also increased job turnover.]]>