. In addition, trade and migration are not equivalent if social capital is present: the highest welfare is obtained with … migration under the corner solution, the second highest welfare is obtained with trade, and the lowest welfare is obtained with … migration under the internal solution. The first two solutions (third solution) raise (may raise or reduce) welfare relative to …

This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … and thus higher welfare, all else equal. Because of this effect, natives in countries that received a lot of migration … results show that the welfare impact of observed levels of migration is substantial, at about 5 to 10% for the main receiving …

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 …

A large part of the Italian welfare system is designed and implemented at the very local level, leading to a high … welfare use based on standard household surveys may fail to consider a large part of welfare recipients and provisions. In … this paper I overcome such a problem by combining the analysis of welfare use in the Italian sample of the European Survey …

state government spending, but no significant positive effect on state education, health, transportation or welfare …

families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are … less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor elder parent health has less impact on the probability of …

Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate the impact of health on domestic migration within … the United States. We find that, for men below 60 years of age, a move from the middle to the bottom of the health … find evidence that, among older men, there is higher mobility at the top and bottom of the health distribution than there …