Browsing by Subject "welfare economics"
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Comparing the true cost of living indices of demographically different households
(2004)The comparison of true cost of living indices between demographically different households (relative equivalence scale) is argued to be sensitive to the way demographic characteristics enter demand analysis. In particular, ...
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Guest worker programs: A theoretical analysis of welfare of the host and source countries*
(2013)This article examines the interaction between migration policies of the host and source countries in the context of a model of guest-worker migration. For the host, the objective is to provide low-cost labor for its employers ...
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International migration, the provision of public goods, and welfare
(1999)This paper highlights the importance of the 'public finance' aspects of international migration on wages and welfare. We construct a general equilibrium model of a labor-exporting (i.e., source) or of a labor-importing ...
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Tied to capital or untied foreign aid?
(1998)A two-country trade model of foreign aid is developed. The aid-receiving country suffers from Harris-Todaro type unemployment. Aid is either untied, tied to sector-specific capital, or tied to intersectorally mobile capital. ...
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Welfare Effects of Immigration Policies in the Presence of Skilled, Unskilled Labor and Capital Mobility
(2011)This paper investigates the welfare consequences of immigration policies in a model with two types of labor, skilled and unskilled, and international capital mobility. The paper examines the effect of government policies, ...