This paper develops an efficiency-wage model of steady-state equilibrium with labor-augmenting technical progress, and uses the model to explore the long-run relationship between unemployment and growth. The rate of productivity growth is either specified exogenously or determined endogenously...

As an alternative to exporting, a firm can enter a foreign market by forging a strategic alliance with its foreign counterparts. The alliance, in the form of a bilateral supply and distribution agreement, eliminates trasportation costs and duplications in product distribution networks....

The paper obtains new results about absolute and comparative advantage, by introducing international technological differences into the three-sector Findlay-Komiya and two-sector Oniki-Uzawa-Stiglitz models of open-economy growth with optimal saving. For example, if a country has the same...

An efficiency-wage model of steady-state equilibrium with labor-augmenting technical progress is developed to explore the long-run relationship between unemployment and growth. The rate of productivity growth is either specified exogenously or determined endogenously. In both cases, we preserve...