ABSTRACT :- We consider a small open Harris-Todaro economy with a rural foreign enclave and urban informal sector. We introduce consumption-efficiency relation to explain the simultaneous existence of informal sector and urban unemployment. Different types of immobility and mobility of capital...

The purpose of this paper is to extend the Fields’ (1989) multi sector job-search model by introducing international trade and capital. Two types of capital are considered: fixed capital and mobile capital. The effects of search intensity and the inflow of foreign capital on the volume and the...

The paper fabricates endogenous skill formation in a two-sector general equilibrium model where the unemployment of the skilled workers is caused by efficiency wage. The paper also examines the effects of the immigration of unskilled labor, the emigration of skilled labor, and the inflow of...

We consider a small open Harris-Todaro (1970) economy with a rural foreign enclave and urban informal sector. We introduce consumption-efficiency relation to explain the simultaneous existence of informal sector and urban unemployment. The main objective of this paper is to analyse the effects...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Fields (1989) proposition in a multi sector general equilibrium model with perfect and imperfect capital mobility. The effects of different fiscal policies on the equilibrium rate of urban unemployment are also examined here. The main findings are more...

The present pattern of urbanization in West Bengal is highly concentrated and it is based on industrialization. A large number of urban population of the state is concentrated in the industrial towns. Industrial towns play dominant role in the urban West Bengal. In the course of urbanization...

This paper incorporates informal sector and efficiency wage relation in a Harris-Todaro econmy under differential production structure. The simultaneous existence of the urban informal sector and the urban unemployment has been explained interms of such efficiency wage relation. Two different...