(9.) In their working paper on this topic, Jeffrey Sachs, Seth Benzell, and Guillermo LaGarda (2015) develop at least one possible theoretical model in which capital investments in the form of robots permit production without labor, which, they argue, has the potential to "
immiserize workers who cannot compete" in the form of lower wages, resulting in falling overall economy-wide output through reverse multiplier effects.
The median voter, in spite of being the decisive voter, chooses to immiserize herself in income terms.
There, a transfer from one country to another, by mangling the terms of trade, can immiserize the recipient and enrich the donor.
Samuelson argues that if China experiences changed productivity, this could
immiserize the United States.
In his words, "the real competitive advantage of sweatshops lies in a national elite's willingness to
immiserize its people.
Or to put it in flamboyant terms, free trade can
immiserize you.
The related claim that growth did not
immiserize or impoverish certain sections is inconsistent with panel evidence.
Failure to institute the appropriate reforms tends to
immiserize the population and increase the size of the poor group who benefit lime from those reforms.
Incidently, like Alam (1981) and Palivos and Yip, Bhagwati and Srinivasan (1981) recognize that, in the presence of a quota, growth does not
immiserize.
immiserize the developing country, despite market stability.
Leontief (1936)demonstrated that an international transfer of purchasing power can paradoxically immiserize the recipient country and enrich the donor country, through an improvement in the terms of trade (a secondary effect) for the donor.
it will immiserize the recipient country and enrich the donor country through changes in terms of trade.