When Does Trade Hurt? Market, Transition and Developing Economies
29 Pages Posted: 13 Jun 2002 Last revised: 2 Apr 2022
Date Written: June 2002
Abstract
This paper argues that labor market distortions in transition and developing economies help explain differential impacts of trade liberalization. We assume that workers differ in ability. In a market economy their earnings depend on their ability. However, earnings are independent of ability due to a common wage set in manufacturing in a transition economy and because of family farms in a developing economy. Our work suggests that trade liberalization without structural reform can have serious adverse effects in transition and developing economies: there can even be mutual losses from trade.
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