We quantify the barriers to the economic integration of immigrants using an occupational choice model with natives and immigrants of multiple types subject to wedges that distort their allocations. We show that key parameters, including wedges, can be estimated to match the distribution of...

This paper studies the dynamics of international trade flows at business cycle frequencies. We show that introducing dynamic considerations into an otherwise standard model of trade can account for several puzzling features of trade flows at business cycle frequencies. Our insight is that...

We estimate qualityoflife and productivity differences across Canada's metropolitan areas in a hedonic generalequilibrium framework. These are based on the estimated willingnesstopay of heterogeneous households and firms to locate in various cities, which differ in their wage levels, housing...