International Trade, Wage Inequality and the Developing Economy

Marjit, Sugata; Acharyya, Rajat

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-57422-1

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“…The apparent secular increase in inequality is in both income derived from assets (note the role played by capital gains in this) and in labour income. This latter component has been driven by a recent increased dispersion of wage rates in industrialised countries Smeeding 1997, 2000); explanations for this remarkable phenomenon have been sought in the e¤ects of technological advances on wage dispersion via productivity growth (Acemoglu 2002, Blau and Kahn 1996, Goldin and Katz 1996, Krueger 1993, DiNardo and Pischke 1997 and in the e¤ects of international trade (Burtless 1995, Krugman and Venables 1995, Marjit and Acharyya 2003, Richardson 1995,…”

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Income Distribution and Inequality

Cowell¹

2008

The Elgar Companion to Social Economics

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Income Distribution and Inequality

Cowell¹

2008

The Elgar Companion to Social Economics

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“…Theoretically, the falling wage gap in the post reform period has been explained in the work of Feenstra and Hanson (1996), Marjit et al (2000), Marjit et al (2004), Marjit and Acharyya (2003), Chaudhuri and Yabuuchi (2007), and Yabuuchi and Chaudhuri (2007). Feenstra and Hanson (1996) have shown that an-inflow of foreign capital has led to the increased production of skilled intensive commodities in Mexico, thereby causing a falling demand for unskilled labor.…”

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Endogenous Skill Formation: Labor Market Integration by an Immigration

Bandopadhyay¹,

Chaudhuri²

2013

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The paper fabricates endogenous skill formation in a two-sector general equilibrium model where the unemployment of the skilled workers is caused by efficiency wage. The paper also examines the effects of the immigration of unskilled labor, the emigration of skilled labor, and the inflow of foreign capital on unemployment, skilled-unskilled wage inequality, and the level of skill formation in each unskilled working family. We find that the immigration of unskilled labor raises both the rate and level of unemployment of the skilled labor and lowers both the relative skilled-unskilled wage inequality and the level of skill formation in each unskilled working family under certain conditions. However, the emigration of skilled labor or the inflow of foreign capital gives opposite results. JEL Classifications: F13, J41, J64, O15

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“…In trade models, several production structures are present (Caves et al 2007;Marjit and Acharyya 2003;Jones 2000). The choice of structure is ruled by the problem analyzed.…”

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