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Capital Market Integration and Wages

  • Anusha Chari
  • Peter Blair Henry
  • Diego Sasson
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
vol. 4, no. 2, April 2012
(pp. 102-32)
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Abstract

For three years after the typical emerging economy opens its stock market to inflows of foreign capital, the average annual growth rate of the real wage in the manufacturing sector increases by a factor of three. No such increase occurs in a control group of countries that do not liberalize. The temporary increase in wage growth drives up the level of the average worker's annual compensation by US $487—an increase equal to nearly one-fifth of their annual pre-liberalization salary. Overall, the results suggest that trade in capital may have a larger impact on wages than trade in goods. (JEL E25, E44, F16, F43, G18, O16)

Citation

Chari, Anusha, Peter Blair Henry, and Diego Sasson. 2012. "Capital Market Integration and Wages." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 4 (2): 102-32. DOI: 10.1257/mac.4.2.102

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JEL Classification

  • E25 Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
  • E44 Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
  • F16 Trade and Labor Market Interactions
  • F43 Economic Growth of Open Economies
  • G18 General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation
  • O16 Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
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