The Economics of International Immigration : Environment, Unemployment, the Wage Gap, and Economic Welfare /

This is the first book that takes a theoretical approach to the effects of international immigration by considering the current economic topics confronted by more highly developed countries such as Japan. Developed here is the classic trade model by Heckscher Ohlin Samuelson, McDougall s basic model...

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Main Authors: Kondoh, Kenji
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Singapore :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, 27
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0092-8
Summary: This is the first book that takes a theoretical approach to the effects of international immigration by considering the current economic topics confronted by more highly developed countries such as Japan. Developed here is the classic trade model by Heckscher Ohlin Samuelson, McDougall s basic model of the international movement factor, the urban rural migration model by Harris Todaro, and Copeland Taylor s well-known model in the field of environmental economics by introducing new trends such as economic integration including free trade and factor mobility between countries at different sta
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XIV,243pages): illustrations.
ISBN: 9789811000928
Index Number: HT388
CLC: F114.41
Contents: 1. Introduction and Summary -- Part I. International Migration and the Economy of the Host Country -- 2. Permanent Migrants and Cross-Border Workers: The Effects on the Host Country -- 3. Legal Migration and Illegal Migration: The Effectiveness of Qualitative and Quantitative Restriction Policies -- Part II. International Immigration and the Labor Market -- 4. International Immigration and Economic Welfare in an Efficiency Wage Model: The Coexistence Case of Both Legal and Illegal Foreign Workers -- 5. Temporary and Permanent Immigration Under Unionization -- 6. The Frequency of Migration an