This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data for importable and exportable industrial sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes employm
The distribution of changes in manufacturing employment and the impact of the minimum wage
โ Scribed by Noel D. Uri; J.Wilson Mixon
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 783 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0304-4076
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