Migration, Unemployment and Trade focuses on the issues of migration, welfare and unemployment in a trade and development framework. Several chapters of the book analyze the implications of internal labor mobility in a model designed to highlight its implications for regional welfare, urban unemployment, rural-urban dichotomy and structural adjustment. An important innovation in this work is the disaggregation of the economy and the use of separate utility functions to highlight non-homogeneity of preferences. The book also deals with international mobility of factors in different frameworks. In particular it concentrates on the highly emotive issue of legal and illegal migration. Thus this work incorporates interesting and important features of labor economics and factor mobility into trade and distortion theory.
History
Pagination
1-274
ISBN-13
9780792373100
ISBN-10
0792373103
Language
eng
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-263) and indexes 1. A Two Sector General Equilibrium Model of an Economy -- 2. A Simple Treatment of the Generalized Harris-Todaro Model -- 3. Policy Making in the Generalized Harris-Todaro Model / Bharat R. Hazari, J. J. Nowak and M. Sahli -- 4. Out-Migration, Unemployment, Income and Structural Change: A Trade Theoretic Analysis -- 5. Capital Mobility, Tariff, Unemployment and the Real Exchange Rate -- 6. Free Trade Zones, Tariffs and the Real Exchange Rate -- 7. Factor Mobility and Spill-Over Effects in a Model of Multilateral Trade -- 8. Illegal Migration, Unemployment and Welfare -- 9. Illegal Migration, Border Enforcement and Growth.