Trade Reform, Capital Mobility, and Efficiency Wage in a Harris-Todaro Economy

Titas Kumar Bandopadhyay
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Titas Kumar Bandopadhyay: Bagnan College, Bagnan, Howrah, West Bengal, India.

The Pakistan Development Review, 2007, vol. 46, issue 2, pages 163-174

Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of trade reform on unemployment and social welfare in a Harris-Todaro (1970) economy with efficiency wage and capital mobility. The analysis shows that capital mobility plays an important role to influence the impact of trade reform on unemployment and social welfare. We find that trade reform raises urban unemployment and produces an ambiguous effect on social welfare when capital is perfectly mobile among the three sectors. However, such policy lowers unemployment and raises social welfare when capital is imperfectly mobile.

Keywords: Trade Reform; Capital Mobility; Efficiency Wage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F01 O24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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