Migration: The Controversies and the Evidence - Hardcover

Edited By Riccardo C. Faini , Jaime De Melo , Klaus Zimmermann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521662338 ISBN 13: 9780521662338

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

This 1999 volume takes a critical look at the current divide over immigration policies. It hopes to shed light on the debate by bringing together papers that investigate the link between trade and factor mobility, particularly labour migration, from theoretical and empirical perspectives. It examines the substitutability between trade and migration, the impact of regional integration on the location of economic activity, the role of public goods provisions, and the political economy of migration. Several papers quantify the link between trade, trade policies, migration and income distribution in sending and receiving nations using econometric methods and general equilibrium simulations. Case studies of past and present migration episodes are also presented: the impact of NAFTA on migratory pressure and wage gaps; the trade-migration links between Eastern and Western Europe; and the historical experience with migration flows in the nineteenth century.

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Review

"Ten papers...investigate the link between trade and factor mobility, particularly labor migration, to learn if trade and migration are substitutes." Journal of Economic Literature

Book Description

This 1999 volume takes a critical look at the current divide over immigration policies. It hopes to shed light on the debate by bringing together papers that investigate the link between trade and factor mobility. A significant addition to the literature on the economics of trade and migration.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521662338
• ISBN 13: 9780521662338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 354