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Technical Progress, Urban Unemployment and Heterogeneous Firms

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  • Hamid Beladi
  • Reza Oladi

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type="main" xml:id="ecpo12047-abs-0001"> We construct a general equilibrium model of urban unemployment with a continuum of heterogeneous urban firms producing differentiated products in a monopolistic competitive market. We introduce a notion of pattern of technical progress among the heterogeneous urban firms and show that this pattern plays a crucial role in determining the effects of urban technical progress in a developing economy. In particular, we show that the possibility of immiserizing technical progress depends on the pattern of progress among the heterogeneous urban firms.

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  • Hamid Beladi & Reza Oladi, 2014. "Technical Progress, Urban Unemployment and Heterogeneous Firms," Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(3), pages 519-529, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecopol:v:26:y:2014:i:3:p:519-529
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    4. Batabyal, Amitrajeet, 2020. "Monopoly vs. Individual Welfare When a Local Public Good is Used to Attract the Creative Class," MPRA Paper 101465, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 09 Jun 2020.
    5. Sugata Marjit & Biswajit Mandal, 2016. "International Trade, Migration and Unemployment – The Role of Informal Sector," Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(1), pages 8-22, March.
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    7. Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, 2021. "Monopoly versus Individual Welfare When a Local Public Good Is Used to Attract the Creative Class," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 44(5), pages 605-614, September.
    8. Sugata Marjit & Reza Oladi, 2020. "Internal Migration, Minimum Rural Wage and Employment Guarantee: Recasting Harris-Todaro," Working Papers 2047, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.
    9. Pi, Jiancai & Fan, Yanwei, 2021. "The impact of robots on equilibrium unemployment of unionized workers," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 663-675.
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    11. Jiancai Pi & Shuxi Duan, 2023. "Appropriation, migration, and unemployment," Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 62(3), pages 430-456, September.
    12. Amarjyoti Mahanta, 2022. "The transition of labour in the presence of adaptation cost and labour market segmentation," Metroeconomica, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 73(1), pages 109-125, February.

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