Labor adjustment and gradual reform: when is commitment important?
Labor adjustment and gradual reform: when is commitment important?
We analyze a model in which a government uses a second best policy to affect the reallocation of labor, following a change in relative prices. We consider two extreme cases, in which the government has either unlimited or negligible ability to commit to future actions. We discuss the factors that determine the importance of commitment ability and provide numerical examples. The degree of commitment ability can alter the equilibrium policy both quantitatively and qualitatively. In both extreme cases the dying sector is protected during the transition to a free market, in order to decrease the amount of unemployment.
adjustment costs, dynamic tariffs, time inconsistency, markov perfection
333-362
Karp, Larry
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Paul, Thierry
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1 December 1998
Karp, Larry
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Paul, Thierry
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Karp, Larry and Paul, Thierry
(1998)
Labor adjustment and gradual reform: when is commitment important?
Journal of International Economics, 46 (2), .
(doi:10.1016/S0022-1996(97)00055-X).
Abstract
We analyze a model in which a government uses a second best policy to affect the reallocation of labor, following a change in relative prices. We consider two extreme cases, in which the government has either unlimited or negligible ability to commit to future actions. We discuss the factors that determine the importance of commitment ability and provide numerical examples. The degree of commitment ability can alter the equilibrium policy both quantitatively and qualitatively. In both extreme cases the dying sector is protected during the transition to a free market, in order to decrease the amount of unemployment.
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Published date: 1 December 1998
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adjustment costs, dynamic tariffs, time inconsistency, markov perfection
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ISSN: 0022-1996
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