International Migration, Remittances and Real Incomes: Effects on the Source Country
用一个包含可贸易品和不可贸易品的两部门模型,分析移民汇款如何影响来源国不同群体的实际收入,发现移民不一定提高自身收入,且影响取决于要素密集度和不可贸易品价格变化。
"This article deals with the impact of remittances from emigrants on real incomes for different groups in their country of origin in a two-by-two model with one traded and one nontraded good. It is shown that emigration does not necessarily raise the real income of the emigrants themselves. If the traded good is capital intensive, nonmigrant workers gain and capitalists lose, whereas if it is labor intensive, the outcome depends on what happens to the price of the nontraded good. The result of a rise is that capitalists gain and workers lose, while a fall has the opposite effect."