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Unemployment And Economic Integration For Developing Countries, Haiwen Zhou Jan 2015

Unemployment And Economic Integration For Developing Countries, Haiwen Zhou

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While financial or trade integration between countries may increase the size of the market and aid the adoption of more advanced technologies, will it also increase the level of urban unemployment for a developing country? In this model, there is unemployment in the urban sector. Manufacturing firms engage in oligopolistic competition and choose increasing returns technologies to maximize profits. Financial firms provide capital to manufacturing firms and they also engage in oligopolistic competition. We show that an increase in the wage rate in the manufacturing sector changes neither the level of technology nor the level of employment in the manufacturing …


An Analysis In Terms Of Trade, Nobuhiro Hayashi Jan 1969

An Analysis In Terms Of Trade, Nobuhiro Hayashi

Economics Theses & Dissertations

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