Abstract
This paper establishes a three-sector general equilibrium model to explore how rural property rights influence urban unemployment, skilled-unskilled wage inequality and social welfare in developing countries. Strengthened rural property rights generate the rent-gaining effect and the productivity-enhancing effect, and the interaction of these two effects determines the changes of urban unemployment, skilled-unskilled wage inequality and social welfare. In addition to the aforementioned two effects, the agricultural sector’s wage elasticity of unskilled labor demand also matters for the change of wage inequality.
Acknowledgement
We would like to thank the editor Mariapia Mendola for her sincere encouragement and Yu Zhou for his helpful assistances. We are very grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and detailed suggestions on improving this paper. We also acknowledge the financial support provided by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and the Collaborative Innovation Center for China Economy. Any remaining errors are ours.
Appendix A. Proof of Lemma 1
Total differentiation of eqs (8)–(10) and (12) yields the following reduced linear equations system:
The determinant of the coefficient matrix of the above equations system is denoted as
Using the Cramer’s rule to solve the above linear equations system, we can get:
Hence, sign (
Appendix B. Proof of Proposition 2
As suggested by the analysis of Proposition 1, the equilibrium value of
Then, we have
Differentiating
From the reduced linear equations system in Appendix A and eq. (12), we have:
Hence,
When
When
Appendix C. Proof of Proposition 3
Totally differentiating eq. (20) with respect to
From the reduced linear equations system in Appendix A and eq. (11), we have:
Hence,
where
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Research Articles
- The Market Value of R&D in Emerging Economies: Evidence from India
- Are You What You Eat? Healthy Behaviour and Risk Preferences
- The Impacts of Rural Property Rights on Urban Unemployment, Wage Inequality, and Welfare in Developing Countries
- Lobbying as a Guard against Extremism
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- What Extent of Welfare Loss is Caused by the Disparity between Perceived and Scientific Risks? A Case Study of Food Irradiation
- Characteristics and Employment of Applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance over the Business Cycle
- Preferences Toward Leniency under Mandatory Criminal Sentencing Guidelines: Role-in-the-Offense Adjustments for Federal Drug Trafficking Defendants
- The Effect of Kinship Placement Laws on Foster Children’s Well-Being
- Are Immigrants in Favour of Immigration? Evidence from England and Wales
- Competition, Product Innovation and Licensing
- The Impact of Educational Mismatches on Wages: The Influence of Measurement Error and Unobserved Heterogeneity
- Education Outcomes of Children of Asian Intermarriages: Does Gender of the Immigrant Parent Matter?
- Letters
- Endogenous Leadership in Tax Competition: A Combination of the Effects of Market Power and Strategic Interaction
- Can Catastrophic Long-Term Care Insurance Policies Increase Private Insurance Coverage and Reduce Medicaid Expenditure?
- Getting Girls to Schools! – Assessing the Impacts of a Targeted Program on Enrollment and Academic Performance