Tariff Reforms with Rigid Wages

Rodney Falvey and Udo Kreickemeier

Discussion Papers from University of Nottingham, GEP

Abstract: This paper analyses the effects of tariff reforms on welfare and market access in a competitive small open economy that is characterised 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 carry over. We also derive welfare increasing tariff-reform strategies that keep the wage rate constant, and show that this tension may be attenuated.

Keywords: Tariff Reform; Unemployment; Small Open Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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