International migration of labour and skilled-unskilled wage inequality in a developing economy

被引：59

作者：

Yabuuchi, Shigemi

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calcutta, Dept Econ, Kolkata 700050, India

[2] Nagoya City Univ, Dept Econ, Nagoya, Aichi 700050, Japan

来源：

ECONOMIC MODELLING | 2007年 / 24卷 / 01期

关键词：

skilled labour; unskilled labour; wage inequality; emigration (immigration) of labour; labour market imperfection; diverse trade pattern;

D O I：

10.1016/j.econmod.2006.06.006

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

The paper develops a three sector general equilibrium structure with diverse trade pattern and imperfection in the unskilled labour market to analyze the consequences of international mobility of skilled and unskilled labour on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality in the developing economies. It shows that the effects of international migration of labour on the wage inequity crucially depend on both the relative capital intensities between the low-skill and high-skill sectors and the institutional nature of the markets for unskilled labour. The analysis finds that an emigration (immigration) of either type of labour is likely to produce a favourable (an unfavourable) effect on the wage inequality. In particular, the result of emigration (immigration) of skilled labour on the relative wage inequality is counterintuitive. These results have important policy implications for an overpopulated developing country like India. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：128 / 137

页数：10

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