Transferability of Migration Licenses and the Distribution of Potential Rents / Laura L. Bivins, Kala Krishna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bivins, Laura L.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Krishna, Kala.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8619.

NBER working paper series no. w8619

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2001.

Summary:

This paper compares the effects of migration restrictions using licenses which are freely traded in a competitive labor market to those that occur when licenses are allocated to firms who are not permitted to trade them. There is reason to expect that a policy of making licenses non-transferable will not only affect production efficiency, but also to allow producers to capture more of the potential migration rents. Applications to migration policies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are discussed.

Notes:

Print version record

December 2001.