The authors develop an "intertemporal," two-period, two-sector, specific factor model, characterized by generalized wage differentials, and show that a number of pathological results in the domestic distortions literature are all but eliminated. In this model, in contrast to the standard...

In this paper, a Harris-Todaro migration model is developed with the urban manufacturing sector supplying a crucial input for the rural sector. Capital is region specific but flows freely between two urban sectors. Final goods are traded and have exogenously fixed prices. If this economy imposes...

In the context of non-diversifiable and sector-specific risks in labour markets, we show that the resulting factor market distortion - attributable to an endogenous intersectoral wage differential - can provide a possible rationale that explains why larger wage dispersion prevails in developing...

In terms of a simple model, it is shown that the growth in the export processing zone through an influx of foreign-owned capital reduces welfare for an economy importing capital-intensive goods and following a protectionary policy. Similarly, it follows that growth in the export-processing zone...