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Baobab

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10. Movement of Natural Persons to provide services
Tue May 24, 2016, 10:51 AM
May 2016

As I said, its been planned for a long time. Basically, this is the payback for globalization. The lowest bidding firms will win the newly privatized former public sector jobs. No discrimination by country. Of course we cannot tell them who to hire or what to pay. Because "Its Their Turn"

This is the basic model:

For a deeper understanding of how migration could equalize the price of labour in two trading
countries, consider figure one (from Senior Nello, 2005:145): There are two countries, Home
and Foreign. The total quantity of labour in the two countries is shown by the distance OhOf.
Before a fully free migration is allowed the distribution of labor is OhL in Home and OfL in
Foreign. The marginal product of labour is higher in Home than in foreign because the
capital/labor ratio is higher in Home. This is shown in the figure by the higher position of the
MPLh curve compared to the MPLf curve. Because of this the wage is higher in Home, at Wh
compared with the wage in Foreign at Wf. In short: Home symbolizes a developed country with
high automatization and high wages and Foreign a less developed country with abundant supply
of labour, low automatization and low wages. If migration is fully free between the two
countries and the workers are identical workers will migrate from Foreign to Home in pursuit of
higher wages. The migration will finally result in an equalized capital/labor ratio in the two
countries and thus equal marginal products of labor and equal wages, illustrated in the figure by
the wage level W' which could be seen as the world market price of labor as the world only
consists of the two countries Home and Foreign. The migration is illustrated in the figure by the
distance LL' which is the amount of workers that will move from Foreign to Home so that the
new distribution of labour becomes OhL' in Home and L'Of in Foreign.

Wages will thus decrease in Home and increase in Foreign resulting in a loss for the indigenous
workers in Home illustrated in the figure by the area a but a gain for the capital owners of the
areas a+b. In Foreign the workers get an increased income of areas c+d+e while the capital
owners lose areas d+e. The result in total is a net gain for the two countries by areas b+c which
is a gain resulting from higher efficiency in the use of the total resources of the two countries.
This simplified model of reality shows not only that there is a net gain but also that the
migration has clear redistributional effects.

Yep, some Republican women. Am I supposed to be surprised? leftofcool May 2016 #1
More anti bullshit ... apcalc May 2016 #2
Imagine if you will, life in America for women under a President Trump liberal N proud May 2016 #3
Clinton hijacks womens issues with globalism. Baobab May 2016 #4
You really want to take your chances with Trump? liberal N proud May 2016 #5
One world, ready or not! Trump or Sanders would cause a trade war! Baobab May 2016 #8
So, if not Bernie, then Trump? cheapdate May 2016 #26
Its not a gamble.. the WTO rules are public and anybody can read them. Baobab May 2016 #23
If we globalize services lots of women in public sector jobs will likely lose them Baobab May 2016 #22
Lol. She's winning the female vote and she's going La Lioness Priyanka May 2016 #6
Hillary has been a globalist her whole life- she wants to create a level Baobab May 2016 #7
So we should become a third world country because it's their turn? zalinda May 2016 #9
Movement of Natural Persons to provide services Baobab May 2016 #10
Economic integration is similar to integration of US society in the past. Baobab May 2016 #11
Women would yourather give up jobs and careers and let the globalization proceed than break promises Baobab May 2016 #12
maybe women recognize that is a global world. if you want to sell american products abroad La Lioness Priyanka May 2016 #13
thoughts on the rate of change Baobab May 2016 #15
Whatever your brand of paranoia is, I don't buy it La Lioness Priyanka May 2016 #16
"paranoia" implies not true. Are you saying that something I said isnt true? What- be specific, Baobab May 2016 #19
WTO Disciplines on Domestic Regulation are public Baobab May 2016 #24
Poor people in this country know zalinda May 2016 #18
I totally agree. Thats why I am supporting Bernie Sanders- He wants global wages to rise Baobab May 2016 #20
the sustainability argument is the one the neoliberals reject- "on principle" Baobab May 2016 #25
I like how you first rock May 2016 #14
Actually, because of the way trade deals work, once the on switch is switched it makes no difference Baobab May 2016 #17
For example, read the story of what happened to Slovakia Baobab May 2016 #21
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