Authors:

  • Emmanuel Farhi

Excerpt

Labor Mobility Within Currency Unions. Emmanuel Farhi, April 2014, Paper. "We study the effects of labor mobility within a currency union suffering from nominal rigidities. When the demand shortfall in depressed region is mostly internal, migration may not help regional macroeconomic adjustment. When external demand is also at the root of the problem, migration out of depressed regions may produce a positive spillover for stayers. We consider a planning problem and compare its solution to the equilibrium. We find that the equilibrium is generally constrained inefficient, although the welfare losses may be small..." Link verified August 21, 2014