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Business and Economics Journal

Business and Economics Journal

ISSN: 2151-6219

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Factor Price Equalization

Factor price equalization is an economic principle by Paul A. Samuelson (1948), which states that as a result of foreign trade in goods, prices of equivalent factors of output, such as wage levels or capital rents, would be equalized across countries. The theorem implies there are two goods and two growth factors for example, capital and labour. Other key assumptions of the theorem are that because of free trade in commodities, each country faces the same commodity prices, uses the same technology for production, and produces all goods. Crucially these assumptions contribute to the equalization of factor prices across countries without the need for mobility factor such as labor migration or capital flows.

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