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Thèse

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

Date

1989

Auteurs

Slobodan Djajic

Résumé

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.

Université

University of Stockholm

Département académique

International Economics

Lieu de publication

Kingston, Ont.

Liens

Secteurs économiques

Autre

Types de contenu

Policy analysis

Groupes cibles

Chercheurs

Pertinence géographique

International Organizations, Royaume-Uni et Regional relevance

Sphères d’activité

Économie

Langues

Anglais