International Trade and Labor Migration

Wilfred J. Ethier

Chapter 6 in The Floating World:Issues in International Trade Theory, 2014, pp 99-115 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Footloose labor is prominent in the contemporary international economy. Migrant workers have accounted for up to a quarter of the Swiss labor force, and 10 per cent of that of northern Europe generally. A number of American industries now depend heavily upon migrant labor (both legal and illegal) from Mexico and the Caribbean. South Asia supplies a large part of the labor for oil-financed Middle Eastern economic development. Pakistan, for example, now earns almost three-quarters as much foreign exchange from the remittances of temporary migrants abroad as from conventional exports; China has begun formally to contract the export of labor services…

Keywords: International Trade; Scale Economies; Factor Endowments; Political Economy of Trade Policy; Economic Integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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