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The effects of exporting on wages: An evaluation using the 1999 Brazilian exchange rate devaluation by Araújo, Bruno César, Paz, Lourenço S.

“…The impact of international trade on wages has received substantial attention in recent decades; but only recently the specific effects of exporting on wage…”
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The effect of import competition on Brazil's manufacturing labor market in the 2000s: Are imports from China different? by Paz, Lourenço S.

“…This study uses the increased openness of the Brazilian economy in the 2000s to assess the impacts of trade on its manufacturing sector. Using household data,…”
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The impacts of trade liberalization on informal labor markets: A theoretical and empirical evaluation of the Brazilian case by Paz, Lourenço S.

“…Following trade liberalization, several developing countries experienced a sharp increase in the share of informal manufacturing employment. In this paper, I…”
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Precarization or Protection? The Role of Trade and Labour Policies on Informality by Almeida, Rita K., Paz, Lourenço S., Poole, Jennifer P.

“…Several episodes of market-oriented reforms in developing countries have been accompanied by a significant rise in work outside of the formal economy. This…”
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The Effects of Chinese Imports on Female Workers in the Brazilian Manufacturing Sector by Paz, Lourenço S., Ssozi, John

“…This study uses the Becker's (1957) taste-based discrimination model to analyse the effects of import penetration from China and from the Rest of the World…”
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The influence of international trade on labour productivity in services: The case of Brazil in the 1990s by Gardner, H. Stephen, Paz, Lourenço S., Ssozi, John

“…In the developing world, services account for a rising share of domestic employment and international trade. Thus, it is important to know whether trade…”
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The China Shock Impact on Labor Informality: The Effects on Brazilian Manufacturing Workers by Paz, Lourenço S.

“…The vigorous growth of the Chinese economy together with its increasingly successful role in international trade may have profoundly impacted developing…”
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New Evidence on WTO Membership After the Uruguay Round: An Analysis at the Sectoral Level by Paz, Lourenço S., dos Reis, Magnus, de Azevedo, André Filipe Zago

“…The creation of the World Trade Organization in 1995 brought several changes to the world trade system, including more stringent accession commitments,…”
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Trade liberalization and the inter-industry wage premia: the missingf role of productivity by Paz, Lourenço S.

“…The literature concerning the effect of tariffs on the inter-industry wage premium has not addressed the role of total factor productivity (TFP) in determining…”
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The effects of the Chinese imports on Brazilian manufacturing workers by Paz, Lourenço Senne, Kapri, Kul Prasad

“…This study examines the impacts of imports from China and from the Rest of the World (ROW) on the wages of Brazilian manufacturing workers during 2000-2012. In…”
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Inter-industry Productivity Spillovers: An Analysis Using the 1989-1998 Brazilian Trade Liberalisation by Paz, Lourenço S.

“…A major obstacle in the estimation of inter-industry (vertical) productivity spillovers is the need of an exogenous productivity shock. In this article, I…”
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The welfare impacts of a revenue-neutral switch from tariffs to VAT with intermediate inputs and a VAT threshold by Paz, Lourenço S.

“…The debate about replacing tariffs with value-added tax (VAT) in developing countries has paid little attention to the role of VAT as an input tax on the…”
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Trade liberalization and the inter-industry wage premia: the missing role of productivity by Paz, Lourenço S

“…The literature concerning the effect of tariffs on the inter-industry wage premium has not addressed the role of total factor productivity (TFP) in determining…”
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Narrow Replication of Yogo (2004) Estimating the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution when Instruments are Weak by Gomes, Fábio Augusto Reis, Paz, Lourenço S.

“…This narrow replication exercise of Yogo (Review of Economics and Statistics 2004; 86(3): 797-810) finds results identical to the original paper, and provides…”
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Estimating the elasticity of intertemporal substitution: Is the aggregate financial return free from the weak instrument problem? by Gomes, Fábio Augusto Reis, Paz, Lourenço S.

“…► We estimate the elasticity of intertemporal substitution for the US economy. ► We considered the T-Bill, stocks, and a synthetic mutual fund returns. ► Most…”
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Tariffs versus VAT in the presence of heterogeneous firms and an informal sector by Davies, Ronald B., Paz, Lourenço S.

“…The debate over the use of tariffs or value added taxes in developing countries has focused on the difficulty of collecting VAT from the informal sector. This…”
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Chinese imports’ impacts on Brazil’s inter-industry wage premium by Paz, Lourenco S

“…Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of Chinese and non-Chinese import penetration on the inter-industry wage premium, and how such…”
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Corporate foreign currency debt in Brazil: will dollar indebted firms invest more after real exchange rate depreciations? by Paz, Lourenco Senne

“…In this article the effect of real exchange rate movements over the investment of Brazilian firms with foreign currency debt is assessed. Moreover, the…”
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The Political Economy of WTO Implementation and China's Approach to Litigation in the WTO by Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu, Zhang Qi, Cheltenham, and Edward Elgar: 2016, 288 pp., $125.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781783473847 by Paz, Lourenço S.

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The Political Economy of WTO Implementation and China's Approach to Litigation in the WTO by Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu, Zhang Qi, Cheltenham, and Edward Elgar by Paz, Lourenço S

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