inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two … large data bases of wage inequality that have become recently available and a large dataset of average tariff rates all …-industry inequality in poorer countries (those below the world median income) and the reverse in richer countries. The results for inter …

the government's objective reflects a concern for inequality, or diminishing marginal political support from factor owners …

for the growing incidence of wage inequality in many of the developing countries in the liberalized trade and investment … the wage inequality rises unambiguously due to policies like an increase in the relative price of the high-skill commodity … favourable effect on the wage inequality under a reasonable factor intensity condition. Interestingly, contrary to the common …

skilled-unskilled wage inequality in the developing economies. 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 …