Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93579 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
UPSE Discussion Paper No. 2013-02
Publisher: 
University of the Philippines, School of Economics (UPSE), Quezon City
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.
Subjects: 
deindustrialisation
manufacturing and services sector
migration
skills
JEL: 
O14
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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