The impact of immigration on skills, innovation and wages: Education matters more than where people come from

GG Das, S Marjit, M Kar - Journal of Policy Modeling, 2020 - Elsevier
With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled
immigration into the R&D sector that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling …

Trade liberalization and R&D activity: Examining long-run and short-run linkages for individual and panel of leading countries and groups

RC Das, T Chatterjee - Economic Change and Restructuring, 2021 - Springer
It has been an established fact that R&D activities and international trade is correlated but
the directions of causal interplays between them have not yet been unambiguously …

The impact of environmental policy on wage inequality

KH Kuo, SF Wu, CT Lee - International Journal of Economic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Consider a small open Harris and Todaro's model. This paper analyzes the impact of the
policy of environmental protection on skilled–unskilled wage inequality. We find that, in the …

Foreign capital, pollution control, and wage inequality in developing countries

J Pi, P Zhang - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper aims at studying how foreign capital and pollution control influence skilled-
unskilled wage inequality in developing countries through three-sector general equilibrium …

International factor mobility, production cost components, and wage inequality

J Pi, Y Zhou - The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2015 - degruyter.com
The present paper establishes a two-sector monopolistic competition model to investigate
how international factor mobility influences the skilled–unskilled wage inequality when the …

Insecure resources, rent seeking, and wage inequality

J Pi, Y Fan - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper explores how insecure resources affect skilled-unskilled wage inequality in the
background of rent seeking. Through building the general equilibrium models embedded …

International capital flow, vanishing industries and two‐sided wage inequality

S Marjit, S Kar - Pacific Economic Review, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper shows that international capital flow can lead to a rise in the relative wage
between skilled and unskilled workers simultaneously in both capital‐exporting and capital …

Capital concentration and wage inequality

J Pi, Y Fan - The BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2019 - degruyter.com
This paper analyzes how capital concentration affects wage inequality through the channel
of financial frictions. Higher capital concentration can be regarded as the Piketty effect …

International capital flows, land conversion and wage inequality in poor countries

S Marjit, S Kar - Open Economies Review, 2019 - Springer
Conversion of land from agricultural to industrial use has met with strong opposition in many
developing countries in recent times. A number of relevant papers study welfare effects …

Finite change—implication for trade theory, policy and development

S Marjit, B Mandal - Development in India: micro and macro perspectives, 2015 - Springer
The paper traces the evolution of trade theory beyond the standard 2× 2 models and looks
for implications of higher dimensional structures and adjustment problems with large shocks …