Emigration, Wage Inequality and Vanishing Sectors

University of Nottingham, GEP Research Paper 2009/20

17 Pages Posted: 11 Nov 2009

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Sugata Marjit

Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta; Indian Institute of Foreign Trade; City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Economics & Finance

Saibal Kar

Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta; Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Date Written: November 9, 2009

Abstract

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.

Keywords: skill, emigration, wages, inequality, reallocation

JEL Classification: D5, F2, J61

Suggested Citation

Marjit, Sugata and Marjit, Sugata and Kar, Saibal, Emigration, Wage Inequality and Vanishing Sectors (November 9, 2009). University of Nottingham, GEP Research Paper 2009/20 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1502727 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1502727

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