International Outsourcing and Unemployment in a Minimum‐Wage Economy
International Outsourcing and Unemployment in a Minimum‐Wage Economy
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最低工资经济中的国际外包和失业
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9396.2011.00981.x
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2011
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Ting Zhang
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Ting Zhang
为了探讨国际外包对失业和社会福利的影响，传统贸易模型被扩展，纳入规模经济和非熟练劳动力市场的最低工资限制。在本文中，规模经济与最技能密集型产品的生产有关。它表明，在这样一个框架内，有一个权衡之间的社会更可取的捐赠分配和更高的就业水平。因此，尽管外包可以提高总就业率，但这种好处是以进一步加剧资源错配为代价的。通过这种方式，扩展到传统的框架中探索的文件产生新的见解，为什么外包可能会造成净福利损失的母国。
To explore the impact of international outsourcing on unemployment and social welfare, the conventional trade model is extended by including both economies of scale and a minimum‐wage constraint in the unskilled‐labor market. In the paper, the scale economies are linked with the production of the most skill‐intensive good. It is shown that within such a framework, there is a trade‐off between a more socially desirable endowment allocation and a greater level of employment. Therefore, even though outsourcing could raise aggregate employment, this benefit is at the cost of further exacerbating the resource misallocation. In this way, the extensions to the traditional framework explored in the paper generate new insights as to why outsourcing may cause a net welfare loss to the home country.