This paper examines the implications of imperfect labor mobility and unemployment in developing countries. We analyze the effects of wage subsidy policies, factor growth, and the change in labor mobility on unemployment and national income in an economy that is characterized by the existence of...

This paper re-examines the effects of expansion of land itself on unemployment and welfare in the mobile-capital Harris-Todaro model with land in agriculture. We show the possibility of immiserization and the harmful effects on employment contrary to the conventional results. Copyright 2003...