Efficiency gains from liberalizing labor mobility

Abstract EN

We are grateful to Michel Beine, Daniel Bernhofen, Simone Bertoli, Philippe Fargues, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Fabio Mariani, Tobias Müller, Maurice Schiff and seminar participants in Bordeaux IV, Louvain-la-Neuve, Namur, Nantes, Nottingham and Paris for helpful comments and suggestions.

This paper received the "Best Paper Award" at the 11th GEP Postgraduate Conference in Nottingham.

Thanks are due to the Economic Research Forum for its financial support (contract #2009-057 on "The efficiency and redistributive effects of international labor mobility : a bilateral approach with special focus on MENA migration").

We also acknowledge financial support from the Belgian French-speaking Community (convention ARC 09 / 14-019 on "Geographical Mobility of Factors").

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