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Trade Adjustment Assistance: Welfare and Incentive Effects of Payments to Displaced Workers / James A. Brander, Barbara J. Spencer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brander, James A.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w3071.
- NBER working paper series no. w3071
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Trade Adjustment Assistance
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1989.
- Summary:
- We analyze the welfare effects of conditional trade adjustment assistance (i.e. assistance that is received only if displaced workers remain unemployed), and compare the conditional program with unconditional assistance. Taking the level of assistance as exogenous, we show that either the conditional or unconditional program may impose greater efficiency costs, depending on underlying parameters. We then introduce an explicit social welfare function and solve for the optimal level of assistance for each program. Finally, we compare the optimized values of the two programs. If the distribution of wage offers is uniform, the unconditional program is welfare superior.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 1989.
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