We investigate the consequences of redistribution policy on migration and trade in a Standard two-good Heckscher-Ohlin framework. With free trade and factor price equalization, abolishing migration barriers is redundant. With the introduction of government activity, matters change drastically....

This paper examines decentralized income redistribution in a federation with strategically competing regions and immobile as well as freely mobile households. The mobile households are altruistic toward the immobile households. The basic point of this paper can be stated as follows: the...