Globalisation and Labour Markets Research Paper 2009 / 20 Emigration , Wage Inequality and Vanishing
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چکیده
Emigration leads to finite changes in structure of production and sectors vanish because they cannot pay higher wages. Does emigration of one type of labour hurt the other non-emigrating type in this set up? We demonstrate various scenarios when real income of the emigrating and the non-emigrating type do not move together and in the process generalize some of the existing results in the literature. In particular emigration can lead to a drastic change in the degree of inequality depending on which sectors survive in the post-emigration scenario. JEL Classifications: D50, F2, J61,
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