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The paper is purported to analyze the impact of skill formation on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality using a few … variants of the HOS-type framework. It shows that the effect of skill formation on the wage inequality depends crucially upon … improvement measures to improve the skilled-unskilled wage inequality in the developing countries. …
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This paper is an attempt to analyze the consequence of trade liberalization in agriculture in the developed countries on the incidence of child labour in a developing economy in terms of a three- sector general equilibrium model with informal sectors. Adult labour and child labour are...
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The paper analyzes the implications of trade liberalization on the incidence of child labour in a two-sector general equilibrium framework. The supply function of child labour has been derived from the utility maximizing behaviour of the working families. The paper finds that the effect of trade...
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The paper analyzes the implications of a subsidy policy on education and different liberalized trade and investment …
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The paper purports to examine the implications of a free education policy and trade liberalization on the child and … education subsidy or inflow of foreign capital may produce counterproductive results on the supply of child labour in the urban …
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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 …
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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 …
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