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Can International Factor Mobility Lessen Wage Inequality in a Dual Economy?


Hamid Beladi


University of Texas at San Antonio - College of Business - Department of Economics

Sarbajit Chaudhuri


University of Calcutta

Shigemi Yabuuchi


Nagoya City University - Department of Economics
January 2007


Abstract:     
We introduce international labor mobility in a three-sector general equilibrium model with rural-urban migration. We demonstrate that under some reasonable conditions an inflow of foreign skilled labor (capital) can reduce skilled-unskilled wage inequality.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 15

Keywords: Skilled-unskilled wage inequality, rural-urban migration, Unemployment, International factor movements

JEL Classification: F16, F22, O18

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Date posted: April 26, 2007  

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Beladi, Hamid, Chaudhuri, Sarbajit and Yabuuchi, Shigemi, Can International Factor Mobility Lessen Wage Inequality in a Dual Economy? (January 2007). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=981987 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.981987

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Hamid Beladi (Contact Author)
University of Texas at San Antonio - College of Business - Department of Economics ( email )
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Sarbajit Chaudhuri
University of Calcutta ( email )
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Shigemi Yabuuchi
Nagoya City University - Department of Economics ( email )
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Nagoya, 467-8501
Japan
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