Unemployment is present in many developing countries. Thus, the government of a country that suffers from chronic unemployment often wants to emigrate some workers to foreign countries. This paper investigates whether such a policy is successful for reducing domestic unemployment.Unemployment; Emigration; Harris-Todaro model
Low and middle income countries frequently have a substantial informal sector within large cities. I...
An economic model is introduced to discuss the impacts of rural migration on skills in source and de...
Classification JEL : E24; J61; L43This paper assesses the consequences of immigration for natives' u...
An increase in the probability of work abroad, where the returns to schooling are higher than at hom...
We introduce international labor mobility in a three-sector general equilibrium model with rural-urb...
This paper examines the effect of different skill levels of emigration on a country’s labor market, ...
The paper shows that in a reasonable production structure for a developing economy a brain drain of ...
We examine the effect of emigration of skilled and unskilled labor on pre-existing wage gap between ...
peer reviewedWe compare the effects of migration on the production of public goods, income taxes, an...
This paper is a significantly revised and augmented version of an earlier, unpublished paper [Bhagwa...
In this paper we set up a simple theoretical framework to study the possible source country effects ...
This paper discusses the issue as to whether or not emigration depletes the stock of skilled worker...
The pioneering work on rural-urban labor migration by John R. Harris and Michael P. Todaro in late 1...
Emigration results in the loss of skilled manpower for many countries. The widespread movement of sk...
This paper discusses how an industrialized country could defend the wages and social benefits of its...
Low and middle income countries frequently have a substantial informal sector within large cities. I...
An economic model is introduced to discuss the impacts of rural migration on skills in source and de...
Classification JEL : E24; J61; L43This paper assesses the consequences of immigration for natives' u...
An increase in the probability of work abroad, where the returns to schooling are higher than at hom...
We introduce international labor mobility in a three-sector general equilibrium model with rural-urb...
This paper examines the effect of different skill levels of emigration on a country’s labor market, ...
The paper shows that in a reasonable production structure for a developing economy a brain drain of ...
We examine the effect of emigration of skilled and unskilled labor on pre-existing wage gap between ...
peer reviewedWe compare the effects of migration on the production of public goods, income taxes, an...
This paper is a significantly revised and augmented version of an earlier, unpublished paper [Bhagwa...
In this paper we set up a simple theoretical framework to study the possible source country effects ...
This paper discusses the issue as to whether or not emigration depletes the stock of skilled worker...
The pioneering work on rural-urban labor migration by John R. Harris and Michael P. Todaro in late 1...
Emigration results in the loss of skilled manpower for many countries. The widespread movement of sk...
This paper discusses how an industrialized country could defend the wages and social benefits of its...
Low and middle income countries frequently have a substantial informal sector within large cities. I...
An economic model is introduced to discuss the impacts of rural migration on skills in source and de...
Classification JEL : E24; J61; L43This paper assesses the consequences of immigration for natives' u...