This paper integrates institutionally determined wage rigidities into an otherwise standard Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade. It accounts for differences in individual productivities and their implications for individual wage incomes and demand for education. Although preserving the...

This paper studies income-redistribution effects from labor migration in a small open economy under alternative assumptions on the international mobility of capital. Our principal result is that induced international capital flows dampen or may even reverse redistribution effects. However, as...

This paper analyzes adjustment to exogenous shocks in a dynamic version of the specific-factors model in which capital is assumed to be a quasi-fixed factor. Capital allocation is treated as an issue in investment theory, thus endogeniz-ing long-run capital stocks of industries. Convex costs of...

Das vorliegende Papier untersucht die Möglichkeiten durch ein politisch fixiertes Lohnniveau die Übersiedlerwelle von der DDR in die BRD einzudämmen. Unterstellt man Einkommensdifferenzen als Motiv für die Abwanderung, so besteht - unter für die DDR realistischen Bedingungen bezüglich...

This paper examines positive and normative implications of efficiency-wage induced unemployment within a model of endogenous growth. Sectorspecific impacts of the wage rate on labor efficiency establish a correlation between the growth rate and the rate of unemployment. The sign of this...