Trade liberalization and wage inequality: Evidence from the Philippine manufacturing sector

• Main Authors: Hernandez, Aeneas DR, Miranda, Brendan Emmanuel A., Regulano, Martin William P., Tecson, Andrae Jamal I.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Free trade—Philippines; Wage differentials—Philippines; International trade—Effect of wage differentials on—Philippines; Economics; Income Distribution; Industrial Organization
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_econ/31; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=etdb_econ
• Institution: De La Salle University

The expansion of trade liberalization during the past four decades has undeniably led to many economic implications. While past studies in the Philippines focusing on the earlier episodes of trade liberalization report insignificant and contradictory results, there is still a lack of attention to th...