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. …

The paper analyzes the implications of a subsidy policy on education and different liberalized trade and investment …

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 …

contemporary incarnation of this displacement--labor market polarization, meaning the simultaneous growth of high-education, high …-wage and low-education, low-wages jobs--a manifestation of Polanyi's paradox. I discuss both the explanatory power of the …

Goldin and Katz's <i>The Race between Education and Technology</i> is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified …

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of … suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy to address both. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality …