Transferability of Migration Licenses and the Distribution of Potential Rents

Laura L. Bivins and Kala Krishna ()

No 8619, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper compares the effects of migration restrictions using licenses which are freely traded in a competitive labor market to those that occur when licenses are allocated to firms who are not permitted to trade them. There is reason to expect that a policy of making licenses non-transferable will not only affect production efficiency, but also to allow producers to capture more of the potential migration rents. Applications to migration policies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are discussed.

JEL-codes: F13 F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-12
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Published as Bivins, Laura L. & Krishna, Kala, 2003. "Transferability of migration licences and the distribution of potential rents," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 80(3), pages 323-328, September.

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