Disentangling the impact of trade barriers on wages: evidence from the MENA region

Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/17938120.2021.2021364
Nora Aboushady, Y. Kamal, Chahir Zaki
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ABSTRACT This paper proposes a comprehensive assessment of the effect of different trade barriers (tariffs, non-tariff measures and services restrictions) on wage disparities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. We look at wage disparities from three dimensions: industry premia, gender-based and skill-based disparities. We use three Labor Market Surveys for Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia to directly assess the effect of trade policy on wage disparities using the human capital model. To which different trade barriers are added. Our results suggest that, in general, the effect of services restrictions and non-tariff measures is much stronger than that of tariffs on wage premium. When we look at different segments, we found that females are more affected by non-tariff measures than their male counterparts. At the skill level, given the abundancy of blue collars in the MENA region, production workers are less affected by both non-tariff measures and by services restrictions than non-production workers but more affected by tariffs.
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解开贸易壁垒对工资的影响:来自中东和北非地区的证据
摘要本文对中东和北非地区不同贸易壁垒(关税、非关税措施和服务限制)对工资差距的影响进行了全面评估。我们从三个维度来看待工资差异:行业溢价、基于性别和基于技能的差异。我们使用埃及、约旦和突尼斯的三项劳动力市场调查,使用人力资本模型直接评估贸易政策对工资差距的影响。增加了不同的贸易壁垒。我们的研究结果表明,总的来说,服务限制和非关税措施对工资溢价的影响要比关税强得多。当我们观察不同的细分市场时,我们发现女性比男性更容易受到非关税措施的影响。在技能层面,考虑到中东和北非地区有大量蓝领,生产工人比非生产工人受非关税措施和服务限制的影响更小,但受关税的影响更大。
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