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Optimal immigration policy: permanent, guest worker, or mode IV?

Schiff, Maurice - 2007

Immigration continues to be on the forefront of the policy debate on both sides of the Atlantic. A number of reforms of permanent and guest-worker (GW) immigration programs are being considered, and the temporary movement of service providers under Mode IV (GATS) is being negotiated at the Doha...

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Temporary migration policies and welfare of the host and source countries : a game-theoretic approach

Djajić, Slobodan; Michael, Michael S. - 2009

This paper examines the interaction between migration policies of the host and source countries in the context of a model of guest-worker migration. For the host, the objective is to provide low-cost labor for its employers while avoiding illegal immigration. It optimizes over these objectives...

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Intergenerational redistribution and labor mobility: A survey

Krieger, Tim - 2001

Increasing labor mobility has an impact on all redistributive policy measures undertaken by national governments. This paper focuses on intergenerational redistribution, in particular PAYG financed public pension systems, and surveys some of the recent literature on this topic. Two different...

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Optimal immigration policy: permanent, guest-worker, or Mode IV?

Schiff, Maurice - 2007

countries' concern with migrants' massive overstaying in past GW programs. This paper contributes to the debate by examining … source country cooperation on illegal immigration, migrants' incentives and their preference for overstaying. The model … solves for the policy measures, the overstaying probability, and the level of illegal migration. The paper concludes that the …

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Migration: the economic calculus of immigrant countries

Dicke, Hugo; Glismann, Hans H. - 1993

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When the union hurts the workers : a positive analysis of immigration policy

Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti - 2005

This paper studies the determinants of immigration policy in an economy with entrepreneurs and workers where a trade union has monopoly power over wages. The presence of the union leads a benevolent government to implement a high level of immigration and induces a welfare loss not only from an...

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Too many migrants, too few services : a model of decision-making on immigration and integration with cultural distance

Verbon, Harrie A. A.; Meijdam, Lex - 2004

In this paper we model the demand for immigrants as a trade-off native voters face between having services, produced by unskilled and non-assimilated immigrants, and experiencing disutility due to the immigrant workers having a culture different from the native culture. Immigrants decide whether...

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A simple model of brain circulation

Schmitt, Nicolas; Soubeyran, Antoine - 2005

This paper considers the allocation of two types of individuals differentiated by levels of talent within and between two countries when they choose to be workers or entrepreneurs. The equilibrium with international migrations requires both countries to be sufficiently different in talent...

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Workers without borders? Culture, migration and the political limits to globalization

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - 2010

This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that there exists a broad political failure that results in inefficiently high barriers restricting the import of temporary foreign workers and also admitting an inefficiently large...

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Deterministic chaos versus stochastic processes: An empirical study on the Austrian Schilling - US Dollar exchange rate

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús - 1998

The classical theory about foreign exchange rate explains its fluctuations as the resulting of a random walk motion. In … this paper, such a theory is put into question by performing Brock, Dechert and Scheinkman's (1987) test on the Austrian …

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