We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our … analysis is the recognition that for free trade, migration, or trade and migration to be adopted, the relevant policy must pass …

The paper develops a unified general equilibrium model including savings with overlapping generations, investment and … search unemployment. Long-run analytical results for the small open economy identify capital accumulation as a prime … transmission channel. The effects of integration on unemployment, however, depend importantly on the nature of wage taxation and …