The economics of international immigration : environment, unemployment, the wage gap, and economic welfare
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The economics of international immigration : environment, unemployment, the wage gap, and economic welfare
(New frontiers in regional science : Asian perspectives, v. 27)
Springer, c2017
Available at 16 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the first book that takes a theoretical approach to the effects of international immigration by considering the current economic topics confronted by more highly developed countries such as Japan. Developed here is the classic trade model by Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson, McDougall's basic model of the international movement factor, the urban-rural migration model by Harris-Todaro, and Copeland-Taylor's well-known model in the field of environmental economics by introducing new trends such as economic integration including free trade and factor mobility between countries at different stages of development. Coexistence of two types of immigrants - legal, skilled workers and illegal, unskilled workers - without any explicit signs of discrimination, transboundary pollution caused by neighboring lower-developed countries with poor pollution abatement technology, difficult international treatment of transboundary renewable resources, the rapid process of aging and population decrease, the higher unemployment rate of younger generations, and the serious gap between permanent and temporary employed workers-are also considered in this book as new and significant topics under the context of international immigration. Taking into account the special difficulties of those serious problems in Asia, each chapter illustrates Japanese and other Asian situations that encourage readers to understand the importance of optimal immigration policies. Also shown is the possibility that economic integration and liberalization of international immigration should bring about positive effects on the economic welfare of the developed host country including the aspects of natural environment, renewable transboundary resources, the rate of unemployment, and the wage gap between workers.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction and Summary.- Part I. International Migration and the Economy of the Host Country.- 2. Permanent Migrants and Cross-Border Workers: The Effects on the Host Country.- 3. Legal Migration and Illegal Migration: The Effectiveness of Qualitative and Quantitative Restriction Policies.- Part II. International Immigration and the Labor Market.- 4. International Immigration and Economic Welfare in an Efficiency Wage Model: The Coexistence Case of Both Legal and Illegal Foreign Workers.- 5. Temporary and Permanent Immigration Under Unionization.- 6. The Frequency of Migration and Optimal Restriction Policies.- Part III. International Immigration and the Natural Environment.- 7. Trans-boundary Pollution and International Migration.- 8. Trans-boundary Pollution and Brain Drain Migration.- 9. Pollution Abatement Equipment and International Migration.- 10. Unemployment, Environmental Policy, and International Migration.- 11. Renewable Resources, Environmental Pollution, and International Migration.- Part IV. International Immigration and Economic Integration.- 12. International Integration with Heterogeneous Immigration Policies.- 13. Emigration, Immigration, and Skill Formation: The Case of a Midstream Country.- 14. Can the Economic Partnership Agreements Help the Developed Country with a Decreasing Population?.
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