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International Migration of Labour and Skilled-Unskilled Wage Inequality

Yabuuchi, Shigemi; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005

The present note 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...

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SKILLS FORMATION AND WAGE INEQUALITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005

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 the technologies of production of the economy and...

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ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION AND WAGE INEQUALITY IN THE PRESENCE OF LABOUR MARKET IMPERFECTION

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Yabuuchi, Shigemi - EconWPA - 2005

Removal of tariff restrictions from the relatively low-skill sectors; growth in foreign direct investment; and, decline of trade union strength of the unskilled workers are cited in the empirical literature as the prime factors responsible for the growing incidence of wage inequality in many of...

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International benchmarking of container stevedoring

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

Productivity at Australian container terminals has improved significantly in absolute terms since 1997 according to … this international benchmarking study. For the sample of ship calls and terminals studied, productivity improved also in … relative terms. The productivity improvement at Australian terminals was generally greater than at overseas terminals between …

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Trends in Australian Manufacturing

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

Australian manufacturing is a picture of diversity and contrasts. This is the main finding of this paper which examines trends in the Australian manufacturing sector over the last two decades. Manufacturing output has quadrupled since the mid-1950s. The fastest growing activities have been those...

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