Trade, non-homothetic preferences, and the impact of country size on wages

Xichao Wang and Mark Gibson ()

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 132, issue C, 121-124

Abstract: We show that the larger country does not always get the higher wage in a trade model with non-homothetic preferences. The cases of one representative consumer and many identical consumers yield different results.

Keywords: Trade; Non-homotheticity; Country size; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 L11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.05.004

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