Beatriz Muriel

Publications (4)1.38 Total impact

• Article: Sources of Comparative Advantages in Brazil

  Beatriz Muriel H, Cristina T. Terra
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  ABSTRACT: Based on the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek model, the authors investigate relative factor abundance in Brazil, as revealed by its international trade. They study two different time periods: one characterized by high trade barriers (1980-85) and the trade liberalization period (1990-95). Two alternative methodologies are used: the estimation of factor intensity regressions on net exports and the direct computation of factor content in net exports. In the factor intensity regression, the authors incorporate technological changes that might have occurred over time, and these turn out to be significant. Both methods yield the same results: the Brazilian international trade reveals relative abundance in capital, land, and unskilled labor, and scarcity in skilled labor, with qualitatively equivalent results for the two time periods studied. Copyright © 2009 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
  Review of Development Economics 02/2009; 13(1):15-27. · 0.69 Impact Factor
• Article: Sources of Comparative Advantages in Brazil

  Beatriz Muriel, Cristina Terra
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  ABSTRACT: Based on the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek model, the authors investigate relative factor abundance in Brazil, as revealed by its international trade. They study two different time periods: one characterized by high trade barriers (1980–85) and the trade liberalization period (1990–95). Two alternative methodologies are used: the estimation of factor intensity regressions on net exports and the direct computation of factor content in net exports. In the factor intensity regression, the authors incorporate technological changes that might have occurred over time, and these turn out to be significant. Both methods yield the same results: the Brazilian international trade reveals relative abundance in capital, land, and unskilled labor, and scarcity in skilled labor, with qualitatively equivalent results for the two time periods studied.
  Review of Development Economics 01/2009; 13(1):15 - 27. · 0.69 Impact Factor
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  Available from: u-cergy.fr

  Article: Sources of Comparative Advantages in Brazil

  Beatriz Muriel, Maria Cristina T. Terra
  01/2008;
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  Available from: anpec.org.br

  Article: ABERTURA COMERCIAL, DESIGUALDADE SALARIAL E SINDICALIZAÇÃO

  Gustavo Gonzaga, Beatriz Muriel, Cristina Terra
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  ABSTRACT: This paper presents a new assessment the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem, relaxing the neoclassical hypothesis of perfect factor mobility and wage flexibility. We build a model economy in which some sector face imperfect competition and workers are unionized in those sector, so that wages are not flexible. The model predicts that the impact of trade openness on wage differentials is smaller in unionized sector, since they suffer two opposite effect. First, we have the standard Stolper-Samuelson effect. The second effect relates to the additional partial adjustment process between wages and employment due to the unionization, dampening down the Stolper-Samuelson effect, since it restricts factor mobility between sectors, thus reducing wages changes. For unionized sectors, we construct an alternative version of the mandates wages empirical model incorporating the effects of wage bargaining. We test the new model for the United States and we found evidence of a positive impact of trade openness on wage differentials for that economy.
  02/2005;