Due to low bargaining power and scarce resources, small developing states face severe disadvantages in international negotiations and may benefit from bloc formation and intra-bloc migration. Policies are examined in a model where a bloc’s size and welfare impact are determined by...

The present paper tries to give support for the decision whether to let the candidates for European Union get members of the Single European Market or just build a customs union with them and hinder free migration while capital movements were still allowed for. On the basis of a simple...

In this paper we analyse the effect of immigration on the labour market prospects of different skill groups among natives. We develop a model of endogenous labour supply in which immigration affects educational decisions of natives. We argue that the distributional consequences of immigration...

This paper analyses the basic labour market inter-dependencies among coun - tries with intra-industrial trade and imper fectly competitive product and labour markets. The paper stresses two major channels through which increased integration may affect product markets and therefore in turn labour...

The enhanced internationalization and mobility of European students reflects an undoubtedly important aspect of human capital investment. This paper examines the internationalization of European students in tertiary education and the factors that determine the probability of a student moving to...

In many countries the difference in labor market performance for skilled and unskilled workers has increased over the past decades. While an extended literature exists on the employment effects of trade, less is known about the effects of factor mobility. Based on the “labor market flow...

After matching a rich micro-level Iranian customs dataset with a macro-level cross-country database on Iranian diaspora stocks, we establish that diaspora matters for dynamics of Iranian exporters. We document the extent to which Iranian emigrants foster exports through both intensive and...

This paper investigates the influence of immigration into Greece on the volumes of Greeces bilateral trade using a gravity modelling approach. An augmented gravity model is estimated using a panel data set for the period 1981-1991. The results show that immigration had a positive impact on the...

This paper investigates the effects of export processing zones (EPZs) on factor rewards, national income and the output of the domestic intermediate good producing sector (backward linkage effect) in surpluslabor developing countries. It is shown that if the intermediate good is internationally...

This paper re-examines Yoshida’s analysis (1993 and 1996) and draws further aspects of economic welfare within Bond and Chen's framework (1987). We show that an increase in fine that a firm pays could be a better policy than an intensification of internal inspection enforcement from a welfare...