Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46554 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3263
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
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.
Subjects: 
entry costs
patterns of trade
underemployment
JEL: 
F16
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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