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Emigration, Finite Changes and Wage Inequality

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  • Hamid Beladi
  • Saibal Kar
  • Sugata Marjit

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Emigration leads to finite changes in structure of production and sectors vanish because they cannot pay higher wages. Does emigration of one type of labor hurt the other non-emigrating type in this set up? We demonstrate various scenarios when real incomes of the emigrating and the non-emigrating types do not move together. This generalizes 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 of the sectors survive in the post-emigration regime.
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  • Hamid Beladi & Saibal Kar & Sugata Marjit, 2013. "Emigration, Finite Changes and Wage Inequality," Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 25(1), pages 61-71, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecopol:v:25:y:2013:i:1:p:61-71
    DOI: 10.1111/ecpo.12001
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