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...

Inspections of people and vehicles at US border crossings are vital to homeland security and preventing unauthorized movement of people and freight into the US interior. However, these inspections incur various costs, including imposing delays on legitimate traffic and increasing expenditures to...

Estimates of the consequences of human-made and natural disasters are crucial for informing decision making by both public and private actors. The 9/11 attack stands out as a particularly important event whose consequences need to be well understood. This study evaluates the macroeconomic...

In this paper, we concentrate on certain trends in Mexican economy and society that are shaping the geography of emigration, are creating new zones of expulsion and are beginning to alter the characteristics of emigrants. Among these trends are the radical restructuring of Mexican agriculture,...

In this paper, we concentrate on certain trends in Mexican economy and society that are shaping the geography of emigration, are creating new zones of expulsion and are beginning to alter the characteristics of emigrants. Among these trends are the radical restructuring of Mexican agriculture,...