Environment and labor movement of skilled labor and unskilled labor between sectors

Xiaochun Li, Yuanting Xu and Dianshuang Wang

Economic Modelling, 2014, vol. 38, issue C, 367-371

Abstract: In this paper, we divide the labor into skilled and unskilled labor to investigate the impact that the heterogeneous labor movement between sectors has on the environment under the international skilled and unskilled labor flows and the price change of the agricultural products. The main conclusions are: under certain conditions, skilled labor inflow deteriorates the environment while its outflow improves the environment; unskilled labor inflow improves the environment while its outflow deteriorates the environment; the increasing price of the agricultural products improves the environment while the decreasing price deteriorates the environment.

Keywords: Environment; Heterogeneous labor movement; Agricultural product price (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O24 Q56 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2014.01.018

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