The impact of the movement of labour: Results from a model of bilateral migration flows

Global Economy Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Walmsley, Terrie L ^a,b   Winters, Alan ^c   Ahmed, Amer ^d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

applied general equilibrium modeling; GATS Mode 4; migration; real income

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855414698     PISSN: 15245861     EISSN: 15535304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1524-5861.1738     Document Type: Article

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