Skills, migration, and industrial structure in a dual economy

A comparative-static model describes the decline of manufacturing in the face of rising overseas employment through a mechanism other than the Dutch Disease. Instead it is competition for skilled labour and the relative ease in producing skills that affect the size of the manufacturing sector, including its employment of unskilled labour.

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Year of publication:	2013-03
Authors:	de Dios, Emmanuel S.
Institutions:	School of Economics, University of the Philippines at Diliman
Subject:	deindustrialisation \| manufacturing and services sector \| migration \| skills

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	UP School of Economics Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. 2013-02, March 2013 Number 201302 21 pages
Classification:	O14 - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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