Dois ensaios em economia internacional e mercado de trabalho

Abstract

The present dissertation contains two essays about implications of international trade on labor market. In the first essay the aim is to find correlations between medium wage of firms and the fact of these firms export or not. It was intend to answer if medium wage of exporting firms differentiate from the not exporter ones, if the level of education of the human capital of the firms play a hole on the premiums for export and if the level of development of the destiny of the exportations imply in any way the magnitude of these premiums. Results showed that there is a wage premium for export in firms that send its production to high developed countries. To the other categories of development, there is a correlation between major levels of education of the human capital of the firms and exporting to high competition markets analyzes the impact of international trade on the differential of wages between genders in Brazil. The second essay objectives to seek evidence of contribution of the fact that a firm is in the international market (through the export of its products) to soften the existing gender wage-gap in Brazil. Purposed to answer if the gender wage differential in the exporting firms is smaller than the one presented in the firms focused on the domestic market and if there are differences with respect to the level of development of the destination country of export, samples from all the twenty-six states of Brazil, in addition to the sample of the Federal District, were analyzed. The evidence pointed out that the exporting firms shows a larger gender wage-gap than the firms that sell only to the domestic market. Not even firms that export only to developed countries presented a decreased gender wage-gap.