) and labor thinning (net out-migration). I propose a constant-returns neoclassical model of economic integration which can …

firms, the flow of technology and the migration of people. These rules have to make sure that individuals, individual … been introduced to ease patent applications. TRIPS protects intellectual property. Rules for labor migration relate to the … a pecking order between trade, capital flows and migration. …

We study the impact of migration to the European Union on the volume of international trade in EU. We focus on Southern … countries as the migration originating countries. The specific question we address is how the stock of immigrants in the host … EU countries, migration from EEC countries actually has an adverse effect. For imports, the coefficient of the log of the …

, countries compete in taxes for migrants. With asymmetric preferences, migration competition takes place in income support levels … results are relevant, e.g., for federal policies that tackle inefficient migration competition and for evaluating whether a … country may wish to adopt unilateral ‘migration-purchase’ policies. …

suggest that ``trade and migration are substitutes,'' labor markets in both the US and Canada exhibit substantial and … persistent interregional migration, with gross migration rates that greatly exceed net migration rates, especially for highly …-educated workers. High gross migration rates are consistent with the hypothesis that education contributes to skill-specialization and …