Employment Risk and Optimal Trade Policies
This paper considers trade policies and welfare in a Harris-Todaro model with risk averse workers. Workers are assumed to have identical and homothetic preferences, but their incomes differ, depending on whether and where they are employed. When workers are equally valued, maximizing social utility is equivalent to maximizing the utility of a rural worker. An optimal policy consists of a production subsidy on the exportable and an import tariff. This model explains the widespread use of import tariffs on manufactured goods along with production subsidies on the export sectors in many LDCs.
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2001-01-01
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Authors: | Choi, E. Kwan ; Beladi, Hamid ; Chen, Jiong |
Institutions: | Department of Economics, Iowa State University |
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