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Trade Openness and Wage Inequality Between Skilled and Unskilled Workers in Tunisia

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  • Monia Ghazali

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An important literature emerged in the 90s about the relationship between integration in the world economy and wage inequality. However, it is more focused on developed countries and Latin America. This paper investigates the impact of trade liberalization process in Tunisia, initiated since the second half of the 1980s, on wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers, over the period 1975-2002. We provide panel data evidence that trade openness contributes to increasing wage inequality. The results converge with conclusions of many existing studies on developing countries and make it essential to identify explanations for this phenomenon in presence of a high unemployment rate of university graduates, in Tunisia.

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  • Monia Ghazali, 2009. "Trade Openness and Wage Inequality Between Skilled and Unskilled Workers in Tunisia," Economie Internationale, CEPII research center, issue 117, pages 63-97.
    • Handle: RePEc:cii:cepiei:2009-1td
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    1. Aissaoui, Najeh & Ben Hassen, Lobna, 2015. "Skill-biased Technological Change, E-skills and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Tunisia," MPRA Paper 76551, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 29 Jun 2015.

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    Keywords

    Wage inequality; trade openness; Tunisia;
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    JEL classification:

    • F11 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Neoclassical Models of Trade
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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