Does Protectionism Harm Unskilled Workers?

In this paper we construct a general equilibrium model of trade and illustrate that return to unskilled labor may be negatively correlated with the price of product it produces. Specifically, we show that greater protection for the intermediate good that uses “unskilled” labor can reduce the unskilled wages. This result has interesting political‐economic implications

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Year of publication:	2018
Authors:	Beladi, Hamid ; Marjit, Sugata ; Oladi, Reza
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Protektionismus \| Protectionism \| Ungelernte Arbeitskräfte \| Unskilled workers

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (7 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Economics & Politics, Vol. 30, Issue 3, pp. 444-450, 2018 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments November 2018 erstellt
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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