Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of conference participants
- 1 Trade and migration: an introduction
- PART ONE INSIGHTS FROM THEORY
- 2 Trade liberalisation and factor mobility: an overview
- Discussion
- 3 Regional integration, trade and migration: are demand linkages relevant in Europe?
- Discussion
- 4 Beyond international factor movements: cultural preferences, endogenous policies and the migration of people: an overview
- Discussion
- 5 Trade liberalisation and public-good provision: migration-promoting or migration-deterring?
- Discussion
- PART TWO QUANTIFYING THE LINKS BETWEEN TRADE AND MIGRATION
- PART THREE HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY EVIDENCE
- Index
4 - Beyond international factor movements: cultural preferences, endogenous policies and the migration of people: an overview
from PART ONE - INSIGHTS FROM THEORY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of conference participants
- 1 Trade and migration: an introduction
- PART ONE INSIGHTS FROM THEORY
- 2 Trade liberalisation and factor mobility: an overview
- Discussion
- 3 Regional integration, trade and migration: are demand linkages relevant in Europe?
- Discussion
- 4 Beyond international factor movements: cultural preferences, endogenous policies and the migration of people: an overview
- Discussion
- 5 Trade liberalisation and public-good provision: migration-promoting or migration-deterring?
- Discussion
- PART TWO QUANTIFYING THE LINKS BETWEEN TRADE AND MIGRATION
- PART THREE HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY EVIDENCE
- Index
Summary
While international migration can be studied as a case of international factor mobility in response to factor-reward differences, we can also proceed beyond theories which view immigration in terms of international factor movements.
(1) Rather than considering migration only in terms of location responses of apersonal factors of production, we might wish to consider the greater complexities that are introduced by recognition of the personal relationships and characteristics of people.
(2) We might wish to consider whether and how national and cultural preferences influence immigration policies.
(3) We might wish to view countries' immigration policies as endogenously determined by the self-interest of pre-existing residents.
Such directions of investigation suggest that the economic considerations that are stressed by the theory of international factor movements only partially explain the propensity of national states to control and restrict immigration. For immigration policies are also seen as reflecting cultural preferences and affinities, and perhaps likes and dislikes that are contained in the collective memories of different peoples.
Although these latter considerations add relevant dimensionalities to the study of international migration, incentives derived from comparative incomes retain a primary role in providing a market foundation for international migration. In section 1 we provide a brief overview of international migration, as presented by the theory of international trade and factor mobility (for more comprehensive accounts than we present here, see Wong, 1995, and chapter 2 in this volume), but we observe how differences in policies adopted by countries toward trade and immigration are inconsistent with policy symmetries implied by the theory.
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- MigrationThe Controversies and the Evidence, pp. 76 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999
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