type="main" xml:lang="en" <p>This paper builds on earlier work that used a general-equilibrium model to show that reducing employment of unauthorized immigrants in the United States through a tighter border-security policy lowers the average income of legal residents. Here we exploit further the...</p>

The welfare consequences of eliminating the shortage economy for the representative Russian household are quantitatively assessed. Before price liberalization, households either bought goods and services at state prices and paid searching and queuing costs, or they bought on parallel markets at...

One Pager No. 178 ? Do Universalismo à Segmentação e o Caminho Inverso: Transferências Condicionadas de Renda e o Desenvolvimento da Cidadania Social por Bryan Roberts, da Universidade do Texas em Austin Roberts (2012), partindo da premissa de que a pobreza não é simplesmente a falta de...