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The Effect of Trade Liberalization on the Employment of Informal Workers: Evidence from Thailand.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Effect of Trade Liberalization on the Employment of Informal Workers: Evidence from Thailand./
Author:	Rattanawich, Purin.
Description:	93 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-01A(E).
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3636065
ISBN:	9781321174762

The Effect of Trade Liberalization on the Employment of Informal Workers: Evidence from Thailand.
Rattanawich, Purin.

The Effect of Trade Liberalization on the Employment of Informal Workers: Evidence from Thailand. - 93 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Claremont Graduate University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

There are many studies that examine the impact of trade liberalization on productivity but few studies examine this impact on the employment of informal workers. Most importantly, these studies have not reached a consistent conclusion as to the impact on informality. First, this dissertation develops a new theoretical model examining the impact of trade liberalization on the employment of informal workers, defined as the portion of a country's production of goods and services that do not comply with the law e.g. pay less than minimum wage, or where a worker who does not receive employment benefits. This new theoretical model explains why some studies failed to find the impact of trade liberalization on informal workers' employment. The model predicts that through trade liberalization, the informal employment of the domestic industry increases whereas the export sector decreases in informal employment. The result is a neutral effect if the sizes of the increase and decrease are equal. Second, this dissertation uses a new dataset to empirically examine the impact of trade liberalization on informality in Thailand. This dissertation is the first to use Thailand's dataset and finds that, in aggregate level, a one percentage point decrease in Thailand's import tariffs leads to an increase in the informal employment in Thailand by about one percentage point. A decrease, in aggregate level, in China's import tariffs, on the other hand, leads to a decrease in the informal employment in Thailand by, on average, 1.2 percentage points.

ISBN: 9781321174762Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017424
Economics, General.

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