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This chapter investigates how the international factor movements affect the unemployment and skilled–unskilled wage inequality with the existence of a modern agricultural sector. Our research has the new feature that we not only consider that the rural labor migrates to the urban sector but also to the modern agricultural sector. The main conclusions are that the unskilled labor outflow certainly decreases the wage inequality and unemployment rate and the influences that skilled labor movement and capital inflow have on wage inequality and unemployment rate are dependent on the factor intensity between the urban and modern agricultural sectors.
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Li, X., Xu, Y. (2017). Unemployment, Wage Inequality, and International Factor Movement in the Presence of Agricultural Dualism. In: Li, X. (eds) Labor Transfer in Emerging Economies. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, vol 12. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3569-2_12
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