Labour Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1100-1137

  Helpman, Elhanan ^a   Itskhoki, Oleg ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); EXPORT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LABOR MARKET; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; MONOPOLY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRADE FLOW; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 77954074338     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2010.00600.x     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Agell J, Lundborg P. " Fair Wages in the Open Economy" Economica 1995, 62:335-351.
2. Alessandria G, Delacroix A. " Trade and the (Dis)Incentive to Reform Labor Markets: The Case of Reform in the European Union" Journal of International Economics 2008, 75:151-166.
3. Amiti M, Pissarides C. " Trade and Industrial Location with Heterogeneous Labour" Journal of International Economics 2005, 67:392-412.
4. Bernard A B, Jensen B J. " Exporters, Jobs, and Wages in US Manufacturing: 1976-87": Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Microeconomics. 1995, 67-112.
5. Blanchard O, Galí J. " Labor Markets and Monetary Policy: A New-Keynesian Model with Unemployment" 2008, NBER Working Paper No. 13897
6. Blanchard O, Wolfers J. " The Role of Shocks and Institutions in the Rise of European Unemployment: The Aggregate Evidence" Economic Journal 2000, 110:C1-C33.
7. Botero J C, Djankov S, La Porta R, Lopez-De-Silanes F, Shleifer A. " The Regulation of Labor" Quarterly Journal of Economics 2004, 119:1339-1382.
8. Brecher R. " Minimum Wage Rates and the Pure Theory of International Trade" Quarterly Journal of Economics 1974, 88:98-116.
9. Brecher R. " An Efficiency-Wage Model with Explicit Monitoring: Unemployment and Welfare in an Open Economy" Journal of International Economics 1992, 32:179-191.
10. Brügemann B. " Trade Integration and the Political Support for Labor Market Rigidity" 2003, http://www.econ.yale.edu/bb338, Yale University
11. Chor D. " Unpacking Sources of Comparative Advantage: A Quantitative Approach" 2006, http://www.mysmu.edu/faculty/davinchor, Singapore Management University
12. Copeland B. " Efficiency Wages in a Ricardian Model of International Trade" Journal of International Economics 1989, 27:221-244.
13. Costinot A. " On the Origins of Comparative Advantage" Journal of International Economics 2009, 77:255-264.
14. Cuñat A, Melitz M. " Volatility, Labor Market Flexibility, and the Pattern of Comparative Advantage" 2007, NBER Working Paper No. 13062
15. Davidson C, Martin L, Matusz S. " The Structure of Simple General Equilibrium Models with Frictional Unemployment" Journal of Political Economy 1988, 96:1267-1293.
16. Davidson C, Martin L, Matusz S. " Trade and Search Generated Unemployment" Journal of International Economics 1999, 48:271-299.
17. Davidson C, Matusz S. " Long-run Lunacy, Short-run Sanity: A Simple Model of Trade with Labor Market Turnover" Review of International Economics 2006a, 14:261-276.
18. Davidson C, Matusz S. " Trade Liberalization and Compensation" International Economic Review 2006b, 47:723-747.
19. Davis D. " Does European Unemployment Prop Up American Wages? National Labor Markets and Global Trade" American Economic Review 1998, 88:478-494.
20. Davis D, Harrigan J. " Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization" 2007, http://www.columbia.edu/drd28, Columbia University
21. Demidova S. " Productivity Improvements and Falling Trade Costs: Boon or Bane?" International Economic Review 2008, 49:1437-1462.
22. Egger H, Kreickemeier U. " Firm Heterogeneity and the Labour Market Effects of Trade Liberalization" International Economic Review 2009, 50:187-216.
23. Fariñas J C, Martín-Marcos A. " Exporting and Economic Performance: Firm-Level Evidence of Spanish Manufacturing" The World Economy 2007, 30:618-646.
24. Felbermayr G, Prat J, Schmerer H-J. " Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes: Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions, and Firm Heterogeneity" 2008, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3363
25. Harris J, Todaro M. " Migration, Unemployment and Development: A Two-Sector Analysis" American Economic Review 1970, 60:126-142.
26. Helpman E, Krugman P R. Market Structure and Foreign Trade 1985, Cambridge, MIT Press
27. Helpman E, Itskhoki O. " Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment" 2007, NBER Working Paper No. 13365
28. Helpman E, Itskhoki O. " Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment" 2009a, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 7502
29. Helpman E, Itskhoki O. " Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment: A Dynamic Model" 2009b, http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/helpman, Harvard University
30. Helpman E, Itskhoki O, Redding S J. " Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy" 2009, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 7353
31. Hoon H T. " Adjustment of Wages and Equilibrium Unemployment in a Ricardian Global Economy" Journal of International Economics 2001, 54:193-209.
32. Hosios A J. " Factor Market Search and the Structure of Simple General Equilibrium Models" Journal of Political Economy 1990, 98:325-355.
33. Jones R W. " The Structure of Simple General Equilibrium Models" Journal of Political Economy 1965, 73:557-572.
34. Kreickemeier U, Nelson D. " Fair Wages, Unemployment and Technological Change in a Global Economy" Journal of International Economics 2006, 70:451-469.
35. Levchenko A. " Institutional Quality and International Trade" Review of Economic Studies 2007, 74:791-819.
36. Matusz S. " Implicit Contracts, Unemployment and International Trade" Economic Journal 1986, 96:71-84.
37. Melitz M. " The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity" Econometrica 2003, 71:1695-1725.
38. Mitra D, Ranjan P. " Offshoring and Unemployment" 2007, NBER Working Paper No. 13149
39. Moore M P, Ranjan P. " Globalisation vs. Skill-Biased Technological Change: Implications for Unemployment and Wage Inequality" Economic Journal 2005, 115:391-422.
40. Nickell S. " Unemployment and Labor Market Rigidities: Europe Versus North-America" Journal of Economic Perspectives 1997, 11:55-74.
41. Nickell S, Nunziata L, Ochel W, Quintini G, Aghion P, Frydman R, Stiglitz J, Woodford M. " The Beveridge Curve, Unemployment and Wages in the OECD from the 1960s to the 1990s" Knowledge, Information and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics: In Honor of Edmund Phelps 2003, in, (eds), Princeton, Princeton University Press
42. Nunn N. " Relationship-Specificity, Incomplete Contracts, and the Pattern of Trade" Quarterly Journal of Economics 2007, 122:569-600.
43. Pissarides C A. Equilibrium Unemployment Theory 2000, 2nd edn, Cambridge, MIT Press
44. Stole L A, Zwiebel J. " Organizational Design and Technology Choice under Intrafirm Bargaining" American Economic Review 1996a, 86:195-222.
45. Stole L A, Zwiebel J. " Intra-Firm Bargaining under Non-Binding Contracts" Review of Economic Studies 1996b, 63:375-410.