Skills, migration, and industrial structure in a dual economy

Emmanuel de Dios ()

No 201302, UP School of Economics Discussion Papers from University of the Philippines School of Economics

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: deindustrialisation; manufacturing and services sector; migration; skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O14 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2013-03
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Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. 2013-02, March 2013

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