Technology, trade and ‘urban poor’ in a general equilibrium model with segmented domestic factor markets
Technology, trade and ‘urban poor’ in a general equilibrium model with segmented domestic factor markets
Drawing on the evidence from Indian provinces, this paper, using a four-sector general equilibrium model with segmented domestic labour and capital markets, proposes that factor-specific technological progress only in the capital-intensive segment of the urban formal sectors may affect the urban informal workers adversely, while a trade induced progress in the vertically integrated skill-intensive formal sector benefits them. The numerical analysis further illuminates the importance of credit-product inter-linkage to channel the impact on urban informal wage. Such analysis also helps to infer the well-being of the urban poor, given its strong association with the trends in informal wages.
General equilibrium, Technological progress, Urban informal wage
400-416
Mukherjee, Soumyatanu
3eb37c57-3efd-4203-a81b-de3acad02811
1 September 2016
Mukherjee, Soumyatanu
3eb37c57-3efd-4203-a81b-de3acad02811
Mukherjee, Soumyatanu
(2016)
Technology, trade and ‘urban poor’ in a general equilibrium model with segmented domestic factor markets.
International Review of Economics and Finance, 45, .
(doi:10.1016/j.iref.2016.07.003).
Abstract
Drawing on the evidence from Indian provinces, this paper, using a four-sector general equilibrium model with segmented domestic labour and capital markets, proposes that factor-specific technological progress only in the capital-intensive segment of the urban formal sectors may affect the urban informal workers adversely, while a trade induced progress in the vertically integrated skill-intensive formal sector benefits them. The numerical analysis further illuminates the importance of credit-product inter-linkage to channel the impact on urban informal wage. Such analysis also helps to infer the well-being of the urban poor, given its strong association with the trends in informal wages.
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Accepted/In Press date: 6 July 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 8 July 2016
Published date: 1 September 2016
Keywords:
General equilibrium, Technological progress, Urban informal wage
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ISSN: 1059-0560
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