The Pro-Competitive Consequences of Trade in Frictional Labor Markets

Hamid Firooz

No 10649, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: What are the pro-competitive consequences of trade in frictional labor markets? This paper develops and estimates a dynamic general equilibrium trade model to show that the interplay between endogenously variable markups in product markets and frictions in labor markets has important implications for aggregate as well as distributional consequences of trade. In particular, I show that once markups are allowed to respond to trade liberalization, unemployment and residual wage inequality rise almost three times more than in a model with constant markups (in the steady state). The presence of labor market frictions makes the pro-competitive gains from trade liberalization negative.

Keywords: international trade; variable markups; pro-competitive gains; labor elasticity of revenue; unemployment; residual wage inequality; firm size distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 F12 F16 J64 L11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-dge, nep-ger, nep-int and nep-lab
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