Peripherality, income inequality, and economic development in Latin American countries

Murakami, Yoshimichi; Hamaguchi, Nobuaki

doi:10.1080/13600818.2021.1880559

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“…The finding is consistent with recent empirical studies analyzing LACs, including Herzer et al (2014), Kristjanpoller and Contreras (2017), Murakami and Hamaguchi (2017), and Suanes (2016). By contrast, the coefficients of input tariffs and foreign technology, including their interactions with skilled dummies, are insignificant, thus suggesting that foreign technologies may not be skill-biased in this period in Chile.…”

Section: Trade Liberalization and Industry Skill Premiumssupporting

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Trade liberalization and wage inequality: Evidence from Chile

Murakami

2021

The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development

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This study analyzes the impacts of further tariff reductions resulting from the proliferation of regional trade agreements on wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers in Chile in the 2000s. Thus, we use data on effective tariff rates instead of uniform most-favored-nation rates to measure trade liberalization. We match panel data on industry characteristics, including effective tariff rates, to pooled individual cross-section data from national household surveys at the industry level. We find that the reductions in effective tariffs on final goods increase industry wage premiums, thus suggesting that liberalization-induced productivity improvements lead to higher wages. However, considering the differential impacts on different skill groups, we find that the reductions significantly increase industry wage premiums only for skilled workers, thereby increasing wage inequality. Moreover, the impact is larger in skilled workers employed in large-sized firms. The results are robust to the inclusion of other industry characteristics, including input tariffs, the share of foreign-owned capital, and payments to foreign technology. The results are also robust to the inclusion of industry productivity, which is likely to affect the effective tariffs and industry wage premiums simultaneously, as well as control for the potential endogeneity of trade policy.

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Trade liberalization and wage inequality: Evidence from Chile

Murakami

2021

The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development

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“…Marginalization is a phenomenon that is expressed in the relegation of an individual or group to conditions of disadvantage, exclusion, or inferiority, that is, to the margins or periphery of their context. Marginalization is a multidimensional phenomenon that includes economic and financial (Dimitrov, 2016; Murakami & Hamaguchi, 2021; Tagai et al, 2018); cultural, political, or institutional (Baah et al, 2019; Melgaço, 2021; Molla, 2018), demographic (Dimitrov, 2016; Heffner & Latocha, 2020; Tagai et al, 2018); and environmental and ecological (Fuerst‐Bjeliš, 2020; Kousis, 1998; Levers et al, 2021; Malin et al, 2019; Nayak et al, 2014) dimensions.…”

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Depopulation and ecological degradation, two dimensions of marginalization, and peripheralization. Ecosystem integrity as an assessment factor in local revitalization

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Regional Science Policy & Practice

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Addressing the pressure that population growth puts on the environment has become a high‐level policy priority. Less discussed is the role of population decline in either enhancing or degrading the natural environment, and how the reshaping of it can help new forms of de‐peripheralization and de‐marginalization. A long‐term trajectory of marginalization and peripheralization of depopulating places can be reversed in certain situations by adopting a more holistic and sustainable analytical and policy framing. In order to do this, here we integrate different types of diagnosis frameworks. The first, based on factors that the literature indicates as factors leading to negative effects of depopulation, for which the revitalization of such places is suggested; and the second, proposed in this paper, which adds the integrity of the ecosystems involved in places undergoing depopulation processes. Our findings suggest that as we add ecosystem integrity factor to observations, in some cases revitalisation is possible even in the localities displaying the potentially negative effects of depopulation decrease. This suggests that whereas in some places a policy managed abandonment may be appropriate to release human pressures over such degraded ecosystems, in other cases, revitalization may be a viable alternative for such settlements.

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