Despite an abundant
literature on the link between trade openness and wage inequality, the latter
remains relatively ambiguous, particularly in the absence of a consensus,
especially for the developing countries.
This article therefore
focuses on the impact of trade openness on wage inequality, particularly
between skilled and unskilled workers for the case of Tunisia.
Our analysis took into
account a number of factors that influence this relationship, such as labor
market fluctuations, technological transfer and the effect of institutions.
Our contribution to this
work is that unlike the majority of work conducted on the Tunisian case, our
analysis has not been limited to the manufacturing industry but we have
extended it to the services sector and the whole economy by including the
non-manufacturing sector in order to provide a comparative analysis between
these different sectors
The
exploitation of the estimation results over the period 1990 to 2020 shows that,
in general, openness has contributed to the increase in wage inequalities in
Tunisia.
