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. …

analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment … stronger productivity growth in the poor country, reducing both migration flows and unemployment in the rich country. This …This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We …

A major theme in accounts of the transitional recession and delayed convergence in post-communist economies is the role …

convergence to market equilibrium. It is expedient that some parties have differentiable objectives or make strictly feasible …

distance. Furthermore, there is little evidence of income convergence. Using various methods and data sets, we show that many …

This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs … of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also …-2000. Overall, the results do not support output convergence, and suggest that the findings of convergence clubs in the literature …