Comparative Advantage and the Equilibrium Rate of Unemployment

This paper develops a two-country Heckscher-Ohlin model with endogenous equilibrium involuntary unemployment to examine the question: What is the effect of free trade on the equilibrium rates of unemployment in the labor abundant and labor-scarce countries? It is shown that free trade leads to a dec...

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Main Author: HOON, Hian Teck
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1991
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/174
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/1173/viewcontent/ComparativeAdvEquilRateUnemployment_1991.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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