significant negative effect on output convergence?by discouraging migration within Canada?the Equalization transfers may have …

migration patterns in response to local economic shocks. This approach explains the different behaviors of workers in different … exogenous manner by introducing ex-ante regulations or unemployment benefits. This model can also explain why individuals from …

The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the … acquisition of skills is costly and involves migration to urban areas. In this model, both the distribution of innate abilities … and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration decision, and costs of backmigration may produce an urban poverty …

using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that … flexible, particularly with regard to migration, while those further east are less so. …

We study the role of uncertainty shocks in explaining unemployment dynamics, separating out the role of aggregate and … measure aggregate and sectoral uncertainty and compare their effects on the unemployment rate in a standard macroeconomic … vector autoregressive (VAR) model. We find that aggregate uncertainty leads to an immediate increase in unemployment, with …

This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and … migration rates are particularly striking for the highskilled. Many countries have lost more than 70 percent of their labor … in 2002. Simple welfare calculations suggest that the losses due to high-skill migration (ceteris paribus) outweigh the …