Aspects of Informalization and Income Distribution in Developing Countries: A Modified Specific Factors Approach
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Keywords
Specific factors model; Ricardo-Viner model; informalization; international pro- duction networks; elasticity of factor substitution; wage rigidity.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- O24 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Trade Policy; Factor Movement; Foreign Exchange Policy
- F11 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Neoclassical Models of Trade
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2006-03-11 (Development)
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