technological advantage in the skilled intensive good when we allow for both trade and migration skilled workers migrate to that … country. We analyze the consequences of this migration for both inequality and welfare for the source and the host country. …

replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. … losses. While the exclusion of migrants from a national replacement program does not improve the situation, the (temporary …

volunteer labour for their electioneering activities. It also examines whether a recorded decline in party activism increases … in activism stems from a fall in their motivation, following parties relying less upon them. This reduces procedural …

The paper analyses the welfare effects of immigration when some sectors of the economy are characterized by wage … bargaining between unions and employers. We show that immigration is unambiguously beneficial if the wage elasticity of labor … immigrat ion is ambiguous; little immigration then reduces the native population's welfare, whereas large scale immigration …

with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing … heterogeneous welfare effects of labor market integration. Whereas individuals without residential property lose from immigration … due to increased housing costs, landowners may win. Moreover, we show how the relationship between migration and capital …

We construct a general equilibrium trade model of a two-class small open host or source country. When consumption tax … revenue finances the provision of a public good, marginal migration reduces social welfare in the source country and raises it … migration has an ambiguous impact on social welfare in either country. When tariff revenue in either country is either equally …

An important issue in public policy debates is the effect of international migration on welfare in source and host … countries. We address this issue by constructing a general equilibrium model of a two-class source or host country. Each country … analysis examines the effects of permanent migration on class, and national welfare. We show, among other things, that marginal …

. Furthermore, they fail to allow for quantity rationing and to model unemployment as a catastrophic event. The macroeconomics based …