This paper extends the insight that trade increases international product-market competition to show that in a world with an endogenous natural rate of unemployment, countries can benefit through a decline in the natural rate. When the number of firms in the integrated world market is greater...

The past three and a half decades witnessed a distinctly declining trend in Singapore's unemployment rate, which dropped from an average annual rate of 7.85 percent in 1966-70 to 2.74 percent in 1991-2000. Kee and Hoon seek to identify and empirically examine the factors that have influenced...

A North-South model is developed which incorporates an endogenous rate of equilibrium unemployment in the North in the context of long-run growth. It is shown how increases in the size of public debt and unemployment compensation financed by payroll taxation, all measured relative to...

We explore the effects of the tax structure in our version of the labor-turnover model of unemployment. We show that for a closed economy, a shift to increased payroll taxation offset by a lighter VAT rate raises the natural rate of unemployment. However, for a small open economy whose interest...