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effect of trade liberalization between two identical economies on unemployment. I solve for two versions of the growth model … versions trade liberalization has a steady state effect on unemployment that can be either negative or positive depending on …
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We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …
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immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify … alongside trade on unemployment taking into account the substitutability of worker and goods flows. We use data from 24 OECD … order to account for unobserved heterogeneity as well as the potential endogeneity of migration flows and the high …
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When the world economy was recently hit by a severe recession, governments all over the world reacted by initiating …
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In this paper, we present a standard quality ladders endogenous growth model with one significant new assumption, that it takes time for firms to learn how to export. We show that this model without Melitz-type assumptions can account for all the evidence that the Melitz (2003) model was...
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We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …
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-up process of the Argentine economy nor could it be expected to be a big loser. So, the huge amount of unemployment experienced … unemployment are discussed, the impact of the increasing unemployment and growing inequality in wage distribution on income …
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By using two alternative intra-industry trade models (1. - New goods cannot be introduced into the economy; 2. - The possibility for a set of capital goods available in the economy to vary; both models consider the existence of an intersectoral linkage), I show by means of Applied General...
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This paper develops a model for analyzing the costs and benefits of intellectual property enforcement in LDCs. The North is more productive than the South and is the only source of innovator. There are two types of goods, and each bloc has a comparative advantage in producing a specific type of...
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We develop a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous workers and endogenous firm entry to study wage inequality during the adjustment after trade liberalization. We find that trade liberalization increases wage inequality both in the...
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