Trade Liberalization and Compensation

Carl Davidson () and Steven Matusz

International Trade from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Liberalization harms some groups while generating aggregate benefits. We consider various labor market policies that might be used to compensate those who lose from freer trade. Our goal is to find the policy that compensates each group of losers at the lowest cost to the economy. We argue that wage subsidies should be used to compensate those who bear the adjustment costs triggered by liberalization while employment subsidies should be used to compensate those who remain trapped in the previously protected sector. Our analysis indicates that the cost of compensation is low, provided that the right policy is used.

Keywords: International Trade; Liberalization; Compensation; Labor Market Policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2005-03-15
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Journal Article: TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND COMPENSATION (2006)
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