Two major trends in the world economy are international migration and environmental degradation. The object of the paper is to analyze the connection between these two trends, which have generally been analyzed in isolation. Here we represent a world economy in which the exploitation of natural...

We analyze in a simple general equilibrium model of North-South trade the migration of labour and environmental issues. We build on the North-South Trade model originally developed by Chichilnisky (1981, 1994). We assume that property rights for the environmental input are not well defined in...