Real wage rates in Ghana have fallen substantially over the last twenty years. In this paper survey data for the years 1991–1996 is used to assess whether this fall has continued in the 1990s. It is shown that the fall in average real wage rates has continued, the relative wage of skilled labour has risen, the share of skilled wages in total wages has remained constant and the share of wages in...

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...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: F16 F43 J24 J31 O31 O33 Keywords: North–South trade Technological knowledge Human capital Wage inequality This paper develops an endogenous growth model with technological knowledge directed towards high-versus low-skilled labour, augmented with North–South international trade of intermediate goods and with human-capital accumulation, to analyse how tra...

This research is interested in the effects that immigration has on the labour markets in developing countries. Using the 2001 census and the 2007 community survey from South Africa this paper examines the effect that immigration has on labour market outcomes of native-born South Africans. The results show that low-skilled immigrants increase the employment rates of low-skilled native-born South...

Following Keen and Marchand (1997), the paper analyses the effect of fiscal competition on the composition of public spending in a model where capital and skilled workers are mobile while low skilled workers are immobile. Taxes are levied on capital and labour. Each group of workers benefits from a different kind of public good. Mobility of skilled workers provides an incentive for jurisdiction...

Why are vested interest groups and political economy activities much less significant in some countries than in others? We put forward the following hypothesis: because entrepreneurship is much more established in some countries than in others. In the former there exists a factor, say skilled labour which -in contrast to unskilled labour -is highly mobile between production and the setting up o...

S. D. S. GREVAL LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, late X.M.S. School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta During the month of November 1947, an accurate observation was made to find out the loss of days by unskilled and skilled labour employed, from medical and non-medical causes. The observation covers all the labour employed by Ludlow Jute Company Limited, operating three mills at Chengail in the district of How...

The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland The purpose of this paper is two-fold. We firstly produce a labour market profile of non-Irish immigrants who arrived in Ireland in the ten years to 2003. We then go on to use the labour market profile in estimating the impact of immigration (non-Irish) on the Irish labour market. Immigrants are shown to be a h...

Head-content or Headcount? Short-term Skilled Labour Movements as a Source of Growth This paper contributes a theoretical model to study the effects of short-term movements of skilled labour on a country’s economic growth. As traditional migration models emphasise the long-term effects of migration on factor endowments, they typically omit the analysis of gross labour flows. Gross flows however...

This paper investigates the degree of the labour market competition between White and ethnic minority labour using four waves of the British Quarterly Labour Force Survey (1997). The extent of the labour market competition is examined in terms of wage elasticities and elasticities of complementarity using translog production technology. The estimations suggest that ethnic minority labour is com...