title: A note on international migration, non-traded goods and economic welfare in the source country.
abstract: "This note extends the work of Rivera-Batiz to the case where capital is collectively owned and the decision to emigrate entails both a withdrawal of labor services from the source-country and the surrender of the ownership of capital.  In this framework, which seems to have wide real-world relevance for socialist, labor-managed and peasant economies, it is found that emigration helps increase the welfare of the non-migrant. This result, which seems quite robust to its specifications, is exactly the opposite of that of Rivera-Batiz and points to the need for great caution in drawing policy conclusions with regard to issues pertaining to emigration."
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Quibria
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011056:Political Systems; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D012106:Research; D012950:Socialism; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Capital; Demographic Factors; Economic Factors; Evaluation; International Migration; Labor Migration; Macroeconomic Factors; Migration; Migration Policy; Models, Theoretical; Nonmigrants; Origin; Policy; Political Systems; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Research Methodology; Social Policy; Socialism; Socioeconomic Factors; World