This paper deals with the role of services in an open economy in the context of the Heckscher-Ohlin trade model. The analysis focuses on services associated with maintenance of durable goods. Assuming services are labour-intensive, we show the type of durable demanded in relatively...

This paper examines utility-maximizing migrants in a system of guest-worker migration. Their pattern of leisure and commodity consumption at home and abroad is analysed and related to those chosen by the natives of the host country and the non-migrants of the source country. Permanent migrants...

This paper examines how attractive investment opportunities available to temporary migrants at home affect their saving behaviour and the optimal duration of stay abroad. The model predicts an inverse U-shaped relationship between migration duration and the expected rate of return on repatriated...

This paper studies the effects of illegal immigration and the associated expansion of the underground economy on the allocation of resources, prices, and wages of workers, both in the short run (when occupationl mobility is restricted) and in the long run (when the skill-composition of the labor...

This paper studies the effects of illegal immigration and the associated expansion of the underground economy on the allocation of resources, commodity prices, and wages of workers, both in the short run (when occupational mobility is restricted) and in the long run (when the skill-composition...

A perfect-foresight model of intertemporal utility maximization is used to analyze the current-account effects of a temporary increase in government spending. The relationship between the marginal utility of private consumption and the supply of public goods in the economy is shown to play a...