Market Entry Costs, Underemployment and International Trade

26 Pages Posted: 4 Dec 2010

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Spiros Bougheas

University of Nottingham - School of Economics

Raymond G. Riezman

Aarhus University - Department of Economics and Business Economics; University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Department of Economics; University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business - Department of Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); GEP; Aarhus University - School of Business and Social Sciences

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Date Written: November 30, 2010

Abstract

We develop a small, open economy, two-sector model with heterogeneous agents and endogenous participation in a labor matching market. We analyze the implications of asymmetric market entry costs for the patterns of international trade and underemployment. Furthermore, we examine the welfare implications of trade liberalization and find that under certain conditions the patterns of trade are not optimal. We also examine the robustness of our results when we allow for complementarities in the production function and for alternative matching mechanisms.

Keywords: entry costs, patterns of trade, underemployment

JEL Classification: F16

Suggested Citation

Bougheas, Spiros and Riezman, Raymond G., Market Entry Costs, Underemployment and International Trade (November 30, 2010). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3263, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1719027 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1719027

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