This paper explores the impact of labor market integration between an advanced country (North) and backward country (South) on income distribution and pattern oftrade by making use of a two-sector, competitive trade model with heterogeneous labor. We prove that, for the North, after the labor...

Distribution differences in human capital matter for a country’s growth and trade. While the existing literature considers only the diversity difference in talent distribution, we argue that the kurtosis difference is also an important factor. In a two-sector equilibrium growth model, where...

We set up a two-sector equilibrium growth model with heterogeneous labor to analyze the impact of the creation of common market on the member countries' growth rate. We show that the economic integration will stimulate the backward country's economic growth. In addition, we prove that whether...

This paper explores the growth effects of the enlargement of an integrated economy by making use of a many-country equilibrium growth model with heterogeneous labor. We prove that the impact of the number of member countries on the integrated economy''s growth rate is positive. In addition, we...