Trade with Labor Market Distortions and Heterogeneous Labor: Why Trade Can Hurt / Kala Krishna, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Cemile Yavas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krishna, Kala.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop.

Yavas, Cemile.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9086.

NBER working paper series no. w9086

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Trade with Labor Market Distortions and Heterogeneous Labor

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2002.

Summary:

This paper explains the differential impacts of trade on countries in terms of institutional differences which result in factor market distortions. We modify the Ricardian, Specific Factor and Hecksher Ohlin models of trade to capture these. Trade has both terms of trade effects and output effects. Both work to raise welfare in an undistorted economy. In a distorted economy, price effects work to improve welfare, while output effects work to reduce it. Large distorted countries are more likely to lose from trade as beneficial price effects are lower. In addition the greater the substitutability between goods, the more likely it is that welfare rises through trade.

Notes:

Print version record

July 2002.