Internationale Migration und Einkommensverteilung. Eine außenhandelstheoretische Analyse / International Migration and Income-Redistribution. A Trade-Theoretic Analysis

Leiner Nadine and Meckl Jürgen
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Leiner Nadine: Universität Konstanz, SFB 178, Postfach 55 60, D-78434 Konstanz
Meckl Jürgen: Universität Konstanz, SFB 178, Postfach 55 60, D-78434 Konstanz

Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 1995, vol. 214, issue 3, 324-341

Abstract: We analyze the income-redistribution effects of international migration in the host and source country in a general equilibrium framework. The well-known result that marginal migration leaves the welfare of nonmigrants unaffected is discussed in more detail with regard to shifts in national income distributions. With endogenous goods' prices the consequences for the income distribution are in general ambiguous - we show possibilities for an estimation of their magnitude. As long as wage disparities determine the direction of migration it increases world efficiency. However, redistributive policies may generate migration towards the low-wage country.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-1995-0306

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