International Trade, Wage Inequality and the Developing Economy A General Equilibrium Approach

This book deals with the impact that international trade is likely to have on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in a typical developing economy. This is the first theoretical monograph on this particular issue which has already generated substantial debate and voluminous work for the developed countrie...

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Main Authors: Marjit, Sugata, Acharyya, Rajat (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Physica 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
Series:Contributions to Economics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 1: Introduction -- I Evidence and the Debate -- 2: Wages and Employment -- II Explaining Symmetric Wage-Gap -- 3: The Standard Trade Theory:How Far Does It Go? -- 4: Trade Liberalization and Symmetric Wage-Gap -- 5: Input Trade: An Alternative Explanation -- III Trade, Capital Flow and Employment -- 6: Liberalization and Employmentin the Organized Sector -- IV Trade Liberalization, Wage Inequality and Employment in the South -- 7: Diverse Trade Pattern,Complementarity and Fragmentation -- 8: Segmented Input Marketsand Non-Traded Good -- 9: Trade, Skill Formation and the Wage-Gap -- 10: Conclusion -- List of Figures -- List of Tables 
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520 |a This book deals with the impact that international trade is likely to have on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in a typical developing economy. This is the first theoretical monograph on this particular issue which has already generated substantial debate and voluminous work for the developed countries. A unique feature of this work is that it tries to explain the possibility of rising inequality across trading nations and looks at the segmented labour markets of the poor economies. It makes convincing arguments that the standard general equilibrium models, the main workhorse of trade theory, can be given a creative facelift to address a number of critical and emerging issues in the area of trade and development