The present paper makes an attempt to examine theoretically the impact of emigration of skilled labour from developing countries on the level of welfare of the non-migrants and the level of urban unemployment of unskilled labour in a three sector Harris-Todaro model. The analysis suggests that...

The paper builds up a Harris-Todaro type general equilibrium model to examine the implications of a free education policy and liberalized trade policies on the child labour market. It shows that an increase in the subsidy on education and/or inflow of foreign capital may produce...

This paper has developed a three-sector general equilibrium framework that explains unemployment of both skilled and unskilled labour. Unemployment of unskilled labour is of the Harris-Todaro (1970) type while unemployment of skilled labour is caused due to the validity of the FWH in the...