Domestic labor, foreign capital and national welfare

Udo Broll, Sabine Hansen and Sugata Marjit

No 12/04, Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics from Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Economics

Abstract: The competitive allocation of labor across different sectors of an economy may not be socially optimal when one sector uses foreign capital. We argue that a suitably designed government intervention is required to restrict the sectors to their optimal size and maximize national welfare. Such a policy internalizes the possibility of repatriation and reinvestment. We demonstrate the optimality of a minimum wage regulation.

Keywords: Foreign capital; factor mobility; national welfare; targeting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 F21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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