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wages and welfare. To this end, we construct a general equilibrium model of a labour-exporting (source) and a labour … welfare in both countries, even if commodity prices are constant. The analysis describes and explains the conditions under … migrating workers, the non-migrating workers, and the government seeking to maximize social welfare. …
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taxes and benefits for each country. The MCF estimates depend crucially on the country under consideration and on the …
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The economics literature provides ample evidence that higher corruption discourages FDI inflows. In this paper we address, for the first time in the literature in a systematic way, the exact reverse link, i.e., the empirical effect of FDI inflows on corruption. We present a simple model that...
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protectionist policies in countries where workers will benefit from the imposition of tariffs and quotas. We test and confirm these …
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. The effects of differences in technology and endowments on the pattern of trade and welfare are examined. Import tariffs …. Trade is shown to unambiguously increase welfare by reducing the degree of monopoly in each market, and increasing firm size … are shown to raise welfare in the country employing the tariff, and the welfare implications of various types of industry …
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constraining the use of tariffs are also likely to constrain the possibility of differentiating carbon taxes between sectors ….The paper shows that a carbon tax should not be differentiated across sectors in the economy, provided import and export tariffs … can be used on all traded goods. It is also shown that such a differentiation of carbon taxes is optimal for the …
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Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm … both agricultural and non-agricultural policy measures including import or export taxes, subsidies and quantitative … restrictions plus domestic taxes or subsidies on farm outputs or inputs and consumer subsidies for food staples. This paper …
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the nature of the oligopolistic equilibrium, tariffs may or may not induce foreign direct investment, they may or may not …
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protection implied when crossing a border fell from 180 to 89\% for this same sample. While tariffs still have an influence on …
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This paper reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalisation on poverty in developing countries and asks whether our knowledge has changed significantly over a decade. The conclusion that liberalisation generally boosts income and thus reduces poverty has not changed; some...
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