@techreport{NBERw11046,
 title = "Does Tariff Liberalization Increase Wage Inequality? Some Empirical Evidence",
 author = "Branko Milanovic and Lyn Squire",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "11046",
 year = "2005",
 month = "January",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w11046",
 abstract = {The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have become recently available and a large dataset of average tariff rates all covering the period between  1980 and 2000. We find that tariff reduction is associated with higher inter-occupational and inter-industry inequality in poorer countries (those below the world median income) and the reverse in richer countries. The results for inter-occupational inequality though must be treated with caution.},
}