Detalles del documento

Imprima y guarde

Tesis

Migrants in a Guest-Worker System: A Utility-Maximizing Approach

Fecha

1989

Autores

Slobodan Djajic

Resumen

This paper examines the behavior of 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. The paper also highlights an important distinction between permanent and temporary migration. While a permanent migrant is primarily interested in the real-wage differential between countries of immigration and emigration, a guest worker's decision to migrate depends on both the real and the nominal differential. The relative importance of the nominal differential is found to be inversely related to the degree of concavity of his instantaneous utility function.

Universidad

University of Stockholm

Departamento Académico

International Economics

Lugar de publicación

Kingston, Ont.

Conexiones

Los sectores económicos

Otro

Tipos de contenido

Análisis de políticas

Los grupos destinatarios

Los investigadores

Relevancia geográfica

International Organizations, Reino Unido, y Regional relevance

Esferas de la actividad

Economía

Idiomas

Inglés