Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/101462
Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeiträge - Serie II No. 338
Publisher: 
Universität Konstanz, Sonderforschungsbereich 178 - Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft, Konstanz
Abstract: 
This paper considers trade policies and welfare in a Harris-Todaro model with risk averse workers. Workers are assumed to have identical and homothetic preferences, but their incomes differ, depending on whether and where they are employed. When workers are equally weighted, maximizing social utility is equivalent to maximizing the utility of a rural worker. An optimal policy consists of a production subsidy on the exportable and an import tariff. This model explains the widespread use of import tariffs of manufactured goods along with production subsidies on the export sectors in some LDCs.
Subjects: 
Employment Risk
Trade Policies
JEL: 
F13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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