Possibility or impossibility of paradoxes in the small country Harris-Todaro framework: a unifying analysis

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Marjit, S; Beladi, H
• 署名单位: North Dakota State University Fargo
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3878(03)00026-9
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 379-385
• 关键词: Harris-Todaro framework; Heekscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model; envelope

摘要

In this paper, we argue that the Harris-Todaro, (HT) framework sometimes satisfies an envelope property, which makes it work like a full-employment Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson (HOS) model. Then, the HT structure produces very similar results as one gets in the standard HOS framework. Differences arise because the envelope condition may break down. We show how several celebrated results in the HT structure can have this reinterpretation. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V.