“…Early studies showed that market integration had spillover effects (Johansson & Ljungwall, 2009) and that market integration contributed to growth of productivity and reduction in regional inequality in various countries (Bekaert, Harvey, & Lundblad, 2011;Ezcurra & Rodríguez-Pose, 2013;Tu & Bulte, 2010). Using wage data in different countries, early analyses found that international market integration reduced wage inequality in other countries (Bigsten & Durevall, 2006;Green, Dickerson, & Arbache, 2001).…”