Tariff Reforms with Rigid Wages

Rodney Falvey and Udo Kreickemeier

Chapter 4 in International Trade and Labor Markets:Welfare, Inequality and Unemployment, 2017, pp 95-116 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This chapter analyzes the effects of tariff reforms on welfare and market access in a competitive small open economy that is characterized by involuntary unemployment due to non-market clearing wages that are fixed either in terms of the numeraire or in real terms. We show that recent tariff-reform results can be extended to integrated reforms of tariffs and the wage rate, and that the inherent tension between reforms that increase welfare and market access carries over. We also derive welfare increasing tariff-reform strategies that keep the wage rate constant, and show that this tension may be attenuated.

Keywords: International Trade; Inequality; Labor Markets; Unemployment; Offshoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Journal Article: Tariff reforms with rigid wages (2009)
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