The remarkable increase in trade flows and in migratory flows of highly educated people are two important features of globalization of the last decades. This paper extends a two-country model of interand intraindustry trade to a rich environment featuring technological differences, skill differences and the possibility of international labor mobility. The model is used to explain the patterns o...

This paper investigates the impact of various economic measures on child labor in an open dual economy. We construct a small open economy model with heterogeneity of households in terms of location of residency and income. A part of households with low income supplies child labor when they reside in the rural area. The measures we will mainly consider are trade policies (e.g. import tariff and ...

Temporary and Permanent Migrant Selection: Theory and Evidence of Ability-Search Cost Dynamics* The migrant selection literature concentrates primarily on spatial patterns. This paper illustrates the implications of migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of the labor literature, a search model and a Roy model. Theory and empirics show temporary migrants are i...

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The world economy is in an unprecedented situation, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and health care crisis. It’s currently difficult to predict all consequences, but there are undoubtful changes migration flows, unemployment poverty increase, their impact on national economies globally. paper aimed at analyzing cases of educational reforms different countries, revealing new trends education lea...