Through the process of globalization, trade dependence and interdependence of the developing countries have increased phenomenally than ever before. The characteristic of this late twentieth-century globalization process has been the new technological revolution that has led to a high rate of...

The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age-old conventional wisdom on its head. This paper demonstrates that this apparently paradoxical result is perfectly plausible in a competitive general equilibrium production...

This paper highlights the critical role that demand-shock and policy-shock induced finite changes play for the unconventional employment consequences of such shocks at a general equilibrium of a multi-sector competitive economy. A labour market reform that lowers the institutional costs of...