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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w28391 |
来源ID | Working Paper 28391 |
Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations | |
Rafael Dix-Carneiro; Pinelopi K. Goldberg; Costas Meghir; Gabriel Ulyssea | |
发表日期 | 2021-01-25 |
出版年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual simulations to understand how trade affects economic outcomes in the presence of informality. We show that: (1) Trade openness unambiguously decreases informality in the tradable sector, but has ambiguous effects on aggregate informality. (2) The productivity gains from trade are understated when the informal sector is omitted. (3) Trade openness results in large welfare gains even when informality is repressed. (4) Repressing informality increases productivity, but at the expense of employment and welfare. (5) The effects of trade on wage inequality are reversed when the informal sector is incorporated in the analysis. (6) The informal sector works as an "unemployment," but not a "welfare buffer" in the event of negative economic shocks. |
主题 | International Economics ; Trade ; Labor Economics ; Labor Market Structures ; Development and Growth ; Development |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28391 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586065 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rafael Dix-Carneiro,Pinelopi K. Goldberg,Costas Meghir,et al. Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations. 2021. |
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