Essays on economic geography and migration

• Autores: Adolfo Cristóbal Campoamor
• Directores de la Tesis: Klaus Desmet (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ( España ) en 2008
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Juan José Dolado (presid.), Diego Puga Pequeño (secret.), Gino Gancia (voc.), Georges Siotis (voc.), Dilip Mookherjee (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Ciencias económicas
    • Economía general
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: e-Archivo
• Resumen

  • The thesis consists of three chapters. The first one ("International Convergence and Local Divergence") and the third one ("Trade and Migration: a U-shaped Transition in Eastern Europe") are economic-geography models that study the relation between international trade openness and the location of productive factors, with the subsequent implications for welfare and convergence. The second chapter ("Skill-Upgrading and the Saving of Immigrants") develops a dynamic model of saving and human-capital accumulation with two types of skills in order to explain how unskilled migration may increase the amount of funds devoted to financing higher education among natives