| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP1938 |
| DP1938 Trade Integration with Europe, Export Diversification and Economic Growth in Egypt | |
| Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann; Sébastien Dessus | |
| 发表日期 | 1998-07-31 |
| 出版年 | 1998 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Public opinion in Europe seems worried about the effect of lower-wage country competition. In both newspaper articles and in policy debates, the term ?social dumping? is becoming more and more popular. In many countries, trade unions worried by the effect of what they call ?unfair competition?, propose the adoption of a ?social clause? protecting domestic markets from commodities produced in countries were minimal labour conditions are not met. We analyse the effects of such a policy in the framework of a vertically differentiated Bertrand duopoly. In particular, we study the effects of such a policy on the relocation decisions of the firms and perform a welfare analysis. The welfare analysis takes explicitly into account the unemployment situation in the domestic country by accounting for the workers? welfare losses due to job reductions following the relocation of firms. We characterize the optimal social clause policy both under domestic welfare maximization and from an efficiency point of view. We show that, on domestic welfare grounds, the case for a social clause policy is weaker the higher the domestic wage and the lower the foreign wage. |
| 主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics |
| 关键词 | Production relocation Social clause Vertical differentiation |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp1938 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/531071 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann,Sébastien Dessus. DP1938 Trade Integration with Europe, Export Diversification and Economic Growth in Egypt. 1998. |
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