Land Reforms in the Presence of Monitoring Costs and International Trade.
This paper elucidates the implications of transaction costs in agrarian labor hiring activities in a two-sector model of international trade and identifies a link between the size distribution of land and intersectoral allocation of productive inputs. Ceteris paribus, a more unequal distribution of land increases the amount of outmigration from agriculture, a shrinkage of the production possibility set, and a decrease (increase) in the volume of trade if and only if agriculture is the exportable (importable) sector. In addition, nonintervention in factor and commodity markets is constrained optimal only when land redistribution is not a feasible policy option. Copyright 1998 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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1998
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Authors: | Chau, Nancy H |
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Review of International Economics. - Wiley Blackwell, ISSN 0965-7576. - Vol. 6.1998, 4, p. 564-79
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