This paper analyzes the issues of immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor … mobility. In our model, legal immigration is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms (in … response to market conditions) and through policy-imposed barriers. A loosening of the immigration quota reduces outsourcing …

This paper analyzes immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our … model, legal immigration of skilled labor is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms … in response to market conditions and through policy-imposed barriers. A loosening of the immigration quota reduces …

This paper presents a framework for estimating and simulating a quantitative spatial model of trade and violence. In … estimating a structural gravity equation of violence. Studying continental Africa over the period 1997 to 2023, we test the key …

affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii) foreign direct investment, and iii) migration. A main conclusion of the … study is that trade and capital movements are very unlikely to lead to an equalisation of factor prices. Thus, strong … associated with Eastern enlargement drawing on a time series model of immigration to Germany, which allows to estimate the long …