Foreign capital inflow, skilled-unskilled wage inequality and unemployment of unskilled labour in a fair wage model

Economic Modelling

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 477-486

  Chaudhuri, Sarbajit ^a   Banerjee, Dibyendu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b Serampore College   (India)

Author keywords

Fair wage hypothesis; Foreign capital; Skilled labour; Unemployment; Unskilled labour; Wage inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 71149120777     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2009.10.015     Document Type: Article

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