We study the effect of trade liberalization and intellectual property rights (IPR) protection on the unemployment rate … migration. We find that bilateral trade liberalization decreases the relative unemployment rate of migrants when migration is … low and increases the relative unemployment rate when the migration rate is high. The results do not rely on assumptions …

In this paper, we present two alternative models of trade and unemployment, in which unemployment is generated through … of trade policy, unemployment and a variety of controls, we find strong evidence for the Ricardian prediction that … unemployment and trade openness are negatively related (protection and unemployment are positively related). We do not find any …

We develop a model of directed technology adoption, frictional unemployment, and migration to examine the effects of a … function, an increase in the skill ratio can reduce both the relative unemployment rate and the relative emigration rate (brain …

equation for bilateral mobility that embodies a co-determined local unemployment term. As a theory of migration, our model …We develop and estimate a theory-consistent gravity model for interregional migration flows in the presence of … unemployment. Micro-founded in a setting where search friction regulates labor market transitions, we derive a migration gravity …

This paper proves that the Mortensen-Pissarides matching theory is nothing but a tautology. They started with an … vacancy-unemployment relation …