Labour Market Imperfection and HOS Model: Some Counterintuitive Results

10 Pages Posted: 21 Oct 2009

Date Written: May 21, 2009

Abstract

This note introduces labour market imperfection in an otherwise Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson (HOS) model and provides a theory of unionized wage formation. It demonstrates that this framework satisfies the Stolper-Samuelson theorem and the magnification effect and that it is capable of producing certain results which are contrary to the standard HOS and the Corden and Findlay (1975) results.

Keywords: Labour market imperfection, Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model, Corden and Findlay model, Foreign capital, Trade liberalization

JEL Classification: F2, F21, O17

Suggested Citation

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit, Labour Market Imperfection and HOS Model: Some Counterintuitive Results (May 21, 2009). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1492322 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1492322

Sarbajit Chaudhuri (Contact Author)

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