abstract: 'The analysis of the links between trade policy and labor market outcomes

  has developed in recent decades, prompt up by the concerns about the

  effects of the increasing globalization process in which trade plays a

  major role. In this work we analyze the impact of the increase in trade

  liberalization, as a consequence of Mercosur''s creation on employment,

  income and wage dispersion at the individual level. To this aim we use

  data from the Encuesta Continua de Hogares (ECH) for the period 1988 and

  1996 and apply impact evaluation techniques in order to isolate the

  effects of trade reforms from other policies at work during the period.

  One of the most robust findings that emerge using

  difference-in-difference regressions as well as double robust estimators

  and inverse probability weighting, is that in the period following

  Mercosur''s creation there was an increase in monthly earnings and hourly

  labor earnings as well as a significant increase in the probability of

  unemployment and increased wage dispersion.'
affiliation: 'Peluffo, A (Corresponding Author), Univ Republica, Inst Econ, Dr Joaquin
  Requena 1375, Montevideo, Uruguay.

  Peluffo, Adriana, Univ Republica, Inst Econ, Dr Joaquin Requena 1375, Montevideo,
  Uruguay.'
article-number: '219'
author: Peluffo, Adriana
author-email: apeluffo@iecon.ccee.edu.uy
author_list:
- family: Peluffo
  given: Adriana
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1186/2193-1801-2-219
files: []
issn: 2193-1801
journal: SPRINGERPLUS
keywords: 'Trade; Labor markets; Employment; Wages; Trade and labor market

  interactions'
keywords-plus: 'WAGE INEQUALITY; LIBERALIZATION; POVERTY; GLOBALIZATION; OPENNESS;

  GROWTH'
language: English
number-of-cited-references: '39'
orcid-numbers: Peluffo, Adriana/0000-0002-2291-8192
papis_id: 530f789671c00807e200bfe215c18a02
ref: Peluffo2013assessinglabor
researcherid-numbers: Peluffo, Adriana/AAF-5276-2020
times-cited: '2'
title: Assessing labor market impacts of trade opening in Uruguay
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000209465000018
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '6'
volume: '2'
web-of-science-categories: Multidisciplinary Sciences
year: '2013'