TY - BOOK ID - 78437623 TI - Trade Liberalization in Peru : Adjustment Costs Amidst High Labor Mobility AU - Baldárrago, Elin. AU - Salinas, Gonzalo. PY - 2017 SN - 1475585969 9781475585964 147558556X 9781475585568 1475585934 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Free trade KW - Free trade. KW - Free trade and protection KW - Trade, Free KW - Trade liberalization KW - International trade KW - E-books KW - Exports and Imports KW - Labor KW - Taxation KW - Poverty and Homelessness KW - Trade Policy KW - International Trade Organizations KW - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty KW - Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis KW - Housing KW - Infrastructure KW - Development Planning and Policy: Trade Policy KW - Factor Movement KW - Foreign Exchange Policy KW - Trade: General KW - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General KW - Geographic Labor Mobility KW - Immigrant Workers KW - Public finance & taxation KW - International economics KW - Poverty & precarity KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Tariffs KW - Imports KW - Poverty KW - Labor mobility KW - Taxes KW - Tariff KW - Commercial policy KW - Peru UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78437623 AB - While trade integration has been an engine of global growth and prosperity, as suggested by theory, some sectors have been negatively affected by increased import competition. We test if this negative effect is significant in a context of high intranational migration, as theory indicates that labor mobility could reduce it. We focus on the 2004-14 period of trade liberalization in Peru (a major beneficiary of trade integration), which allows for methodological improvements relative to similar studies. We find that districts competing with liberalized imports experienced significantly lower growth in consumption per capita despite some emigration in response to increased import competition. This underscores the need to support the “losers of trade liberalization” even amidst high labor mobility. ER -