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Tariffs, Offshoring and Unemployment in a Two-Country Model

Tariffs, Offshoring and Unemployment in a Two-Country Model Abstract This paper develops a two-country model that incorporates offshoring opportunities, and analyses the effects of tariffs under economic stagnation in a liquidity trap that causes unemployment. We find that a rise in tariffs on imports of outsourced goods contributes to an increase in employment by inducing a shift in production, but also leads to an appreciation of the real exchange rate that tends to reduce employment. The effect of real exchange rate appreciation dominates the effect of the production shift, and accordingly employment and consumption fall. The effects of tariff adjustments are reversed, however, when there is no liquidity trap and hence no unemployment. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Japanese Economic Review Springer Journals

Tariffs, Offshoring and Unemployment in a Two-Country Model

The Japanese Economic Review , Volume 66 (3): 22 – Sep 1, 2015

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
2015 Japanese Economic Association
ISSN
1352-4739
eISSN
1468-5876
DOI
10.1111/jere.12050
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Abstract

Abstract This paper develops a two-country model that incorporates offshoring opportunities, and analyses the effects of tariffs under economic stagnation in a liquidity trap that causes unemployment. We find that a rise in tariffs on imports of outsourced goods contributes to an increase in employment by inducing a shift in production, but also leads to an appreciation of the real exchange rate that tends to reduce employment. The effect of real exchange rate appreciation dominates the effect of the production shift, and accordingly employment and consumption fall. The effects of tariff adjustments are reversed, however, when there is no liquidity trap and hence no unemployment.

Journal

The Japanese Economic ReviewSpringer Journals

Published: Sep 1, 2015

Keywords: economics, general; microeconomics; macroeconomics/monetary economics//financial economics; econometrics; development economics; economic history

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