On the one hand, the Stolper-Samuelson (SS) corollary of the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem predicts that both trade and FDI should take advantage of the abundance of low-skilled labour in DCs and so imply an increasing demand for domestic low skilled labour and hence decreasing within-country wage dispersion and income inequality (Wood, 1994 and 1997; for a critical view, see Milanovic, 2002). On the...

A well-established stylised fact is that employer provided job-related training raises productivity and wages. Using UK data, we further find that job-related training is positively related to subsidies aimed at reducing training costs for employers. We also find that there is a positive, albeit quantitatively small, relationship between wage inequality and training inequality in the UK. Motiva...

Globalization offers opportunities for workers to achieve higher levels of economic prosperity. Unfortunately, it also causes job insecurity for specific groups in certain sectors. This is particularly so in the Malaysian manufacturing sector which is actively fragmenting its production structure. There are prior concerns that some workers in certain labour-intensive segments of the production ...

Opportunities for skilled and unskilled workers in the UK diverged over the last quarter of the twentieth century. We develop an empirical framework consistent with these trends that highlights the importance of skill heterogeneity in both wage setting and labour demand in explaining aggregate labour market outcomes. The framework enables us to quantify the macroeconomic effects of shocks that ...

.─This paper investigates the impact of foreign labour on domestic manufacturing wages through a case study of Malaysia, a country where foreign labour immigration has played a key role in manufacturing growth over the past two decades. The main focus of the paper is on an econometric analysis of the determinants of inter-industry variation in wage growth using a new panel dataset. The results ...

Why are vested interest groups and political economy activities much less significant in some countries than in others? We put forward the following hypothesis: because entrepreneurship is much more established in some countries than in others. In the former there exists a factor, say skilled labour which -in contrast to unskilled labour -is highly mobile between production and the setting up o...

This project proposal addresses whether reorganizations in the specialist health care services result in exclusion from the labour market among the employees, and if so, what characterises the groups that are most severely affected? Special attention will be paid to groups with low socioeconomic status, lowand unskilled employees, women, non-western immigrants and people with a record of sickness.

South Africa's manufacturing sector experiences declining growth and labour demand, increased imports of intermediate goods. The paper investigates the influence offshoring on employment wages for capital- labour-intensive industries skilled unskilled workers, using firm- employer–employee-level data. Unlike findings in developed countries, generally lowers firms increases decreases percentage ...