Migration, Trade and Remittances: Low- and High-Skilled Workers

Philip L. Martin ()
Additional contact information
Philip L. Martin: Gifford Center for Population Studies, University of California, Davis, United States

Remittances Review, 2016, vol. 1, issue 1, 39-52

Abstract: International migration involves the movement of people over national borders, while international trade deals with the production of goods or services in one country and their consumption in another. Economic theory assumes that migration and trade are substitutes, so that freer trade between countries with different wage levels should reduce voluntary migration as trade leads to convergence in wages. However, free-trade agreements can produce a migration hump as the pace of change accelerates and economies adjust, as migration increases before investment creates enough jobs to generate stay-at-home development despite remittances from migrants abroad. Efforts to deal with the root causes of migration must be aware of potential migration humps.

Keywords: Remittances; development; high-skilled workers; trade; migration humps. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.tplondon.com/index.php/rem/article/view/442/435 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mig:remrev:v:1:y:2016:i:1:p:39-52

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://remittancesreview.com/

Access Statistics for this article

Remittances Review is currently edited by Prof Mariam Cornell

More articles in Remittances Review from Remittances Review
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Rem Rev ().