The paper develops a static three sector competitive general equilibrium model of a small open economy in which skilled labour is mobile between a traded good sector and a nontraded good sector andunskilled labour is specific to another traded good sector. The capital is perfectly mobile among all these three sectors. We examine the effects of change in different factor endowments and of global...

This paper uses mean and quantile regression analysis to investigate the gender pay gap for the wage employed in Vietnam over the period 1993 to 2002. It finds that the Doi moi reforms appear to have been associated with a sharp reduction in gender pay gap disparities for the wage employed. The average gender pay gap in this sector halved between 1993 and 2002 with most of the contraction evide...

Changes in the structure of work and families over last four decades have increased many labour market inequalities. Growing earnings inequality, adverse ‘shocks’ for low-educated, geographically concentrated pockets deprivation are among most evident these Britain. The decade since financial crisis has brought inequalities into sharper focus, Covid-19 pandemic further exacerbated inequality. o...