When trade stops: Lessons from the Gaza blockade 2007-2010
When trade stops: Lessons from the Gaza blockade 2007-2010
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jinteco.2014.10.005
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Zimring, Assaf
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作者：
Etkes, Haggay;Zimring, Assaf
本文使用详细的家庭支出和企业生产数据来研究 2007 年中期至 2010 年中期对加沙地带实施封锁的福利后果。将约旦河西岸作为反事实经济体，我们发现福利下降了 14%-27%。此外，封锁前支出水平较高的家庭遭受的福利损失也较大。我们表明，福利的大幅下降可能是由于资源重新分配和生产率下降共同造成的。工人从制造业重新分配到服务业，以及从密集使用进口投入或出口的行业。此外，劳动生产率平均下降20%。 (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. 保留所有权利。
This paper uses detailed household expenditure and firm production data to study the welfare consequences of the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip between mid-2007 and mid-2010. Using the West Bank as a counterfactual economy, we find that welfare declined by 14%-27%. Moreover, households with larger pre-blockade expenditure levels experienced larger welfare losses. We show that this large decline in welfare may be due to a combination of resource reallocation and reduced productivity. Workers were reallocated from manufacturing to services, and from industries that use imported inputs intensively, or export. In addition, labor productivity fell by 20% on average. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.