书目名称 | International Trade and Unemployment |
副标题 | On the Redistributio |
编辑 | Marco de Pinto |
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概述 | Includes supplementary material: |
丛书名称 | Contributions to Economics |
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描述 | Economic theory and empirical research confirm that the rising international integration caused an increase in aggregate income at least for the industrialized countries, although trade liberalization is no Pareto improvement. In the empirical literature, there is a consensus that the international integration implies a destruction of low-skilled job vacancies and an increase in income, while the conclusions are mixed concerning the implication for the overall unemployment rate. This book seeks to find theoretical explanations to these empirical regularities. The book poses three questions: What are the implications of trade liberalization for the labor market in the presence of trade unions if we account for both firm and worker heterogeneity? What are the implications of a redistribution policy if the government chooses unemployment benefits to partially compensate the losers of trade liberalization?, and what is the optimal redistribution scheme for trade gains if the government explicitly takes into account the consequences for the income distribution? This book presents a rigorous theoretical analysis to answer the questions posed. Beside the well-known firm-selection effect o |
出版日期 | Book 2013 |
关键词 | Firm heterogeneity; Trade liberalization; Trade unions; Unemployment benefits; Worker heterogeneity; Work |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33236-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-43917-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-33236-4Series ISSN 1431-1933 Series E-ISSN 2197-7178 |
issn_series | 1431-1933 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 |