Permanent migrants and cross-border workers: the effects on the host country
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The impact of immigration on the relative price of two goods, namely the wage rate and the rental price, is analyzed by employing a two-factor, two-good model in which only one of the goods is nontraded. Further, it is shown that the inflow of foreign workers results in an increase in the welfare of the native inhabitants in the host country. Also, it is demonstrated that if the nontraded good is capital or labor intensive, the inflow of permanent migrants is of more or less benefit to the native inhabitants than the inflow of cross-border workers.
Publication Name: Journal of Regional Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0022-4146
Year: 1999
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The pattern of migration with variable migration cost
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Migrant networks play a cost-reduction role in the increasing trend of out-migration. These networks provide not only initial monetary assistance for settlement and job search. Propensity to migrate can be influenced by benefit enhancement and cost reduction attributed to networks. The stronger the network is in a region, the more preference there is for out-migration.
Publication Name: Journal of Regional Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0022-4146
Year: 1997
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Poor people on the move: county-to-county migration and the spatial concentration of poverty
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Poverty-specific differences in in-migration and out-migration patterns influence poverty levels in high-poverty and low-poverty rural counties and the spatial concentration of poverty. The poor and the nonpoor are both mobile and the migration patterns of both generally maintain and reinforce the pre-existing spatial concentration of poverty.
Publication Name: Journal of Regional Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0022-4146
Year: 1998
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