mutually, welfare improving. When also foreign firms become active, competition strengthens but domestic welfare declines …

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 international and regional negotiation costs, bargaining power, accession rule, and intra …-bloc migration. The main findings are: (i) bloc formation likelihood, size, and benefit increase with international negotiation costs …

for maximization of welfare. …

Econometric analysis established a negative relationship between labor supply and remittances in Jamaica. We … inflows. In this model, remittances reduce labor force participation by increasing reservation wages of recipients. This … of remittances. …

This paper discusses the problem of increasing remittances. It is often argued that the remittance fee needs to be … lowered to increase remittances. We show that remittances become larger by increasing the receiving fee whereas they become …, remittances become larger than those without the transfer. It is shown that for this purpose the home country’s government can …

the welfare implications of such alternative sequences on the various stakeholders within the OECD. The welfare outcomes …

raise the welfare of the economy while an emigration of unskilled labour is welfare reducing. Also an emigration of skilled …

This paper investigates the welfare effects of an increase in location subsidy by constructing a general equilibrium … to obtain the analytical welfare effects that have yet to be examined. We find that the subsidy increase improves … (reduces) the domestic (foreign) welfare, regardless of the size of transport costs. However, closer economic integration …