sufficiently large unemployment benefit for musicians. We notice that the first step, while highly desirable, is unlikely to be … politically feasible in the current Italian institutional setting. The second step, which has a general interest for any second …

This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We … 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 …