In this paper we link urban labor market dualism and the fixity of formal sector wages in expected income migration models with urban agglomeration economies. A possible productivity- efficiency rationale for the "institutional" wage is identified and explored. In addition, a rationalization for...

This paper assumes that migrants derive utility from their own consumption, their own leisure, and remittances to their family. It hypothesizes that the labor supply and remittances of Mexican migrants in the U.S. are jointly determined. Shits in real exchange rates affect the cost of sending a...

Intra-familial conflict which arises from individual consumption choices in an environment characterized by mutual altruism and direct consumption externalities results in parents receiving from their children less than the desired level of attention. Parents adopt a joint bequest-fertility...

In this paper we attempt to ascertain the impact on parents' desired fertility of a number of changes likely to increase the returns to the rural-to-urban migration of children. We assume that the demand for children as assets depends upon the extent to which they raise the mean per capita...

In this paper we examine the effect of migratory opportunities for children on fertility when the decision by the child whether and how much to remit is endogenous to the analysis. We differentiate between two classes of motivations to remit and four changes that are likely to increase the...

In view of proposed immigration reform pertaining to the employment of illegal aliens we model a competitive, risk-averse firm employing legal as well as illegal workers whose wage is effectively a random variable. Inter alia we find that this wage does not affect the scale of the firm's...