Drawing a scatter diagram between differences in service prices and productivity among Japanese regions reveals a positive correlation. Additionally, all students of international economics know of ...

The Balassa-Samuelson effect states that productivity differences between the production of tradable goods in different countries 1) explain large observed differences in wages and in the price of ...

We incorporate different sectoral job separation rates into a two-sector small open economy model to investigate the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) effect. While labour is mobile, unemployment occurs due to ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nearly half a century has passed since academics Bela Balassa and Paul Samuelson discovered, in effect, why ...