Department of Economics2024-11-0920080022-199610.1016/j.jinteco.2007.11.0032-s2.0-43049176203http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2007.11.003https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/7102We simulate numerically a trade model with labor mobility costs added, modeled in such a way as to generate gross flows in excess of net flows. Adjustment to a trade shock can be slow with plausible parameter values. In our base case, the economy moves 95% of the distance to the new steady state in approximately eight years. Gross flows have a large effect on this rate of adjustment and on the normative effects of trade. Announcing and delaying the liberalization can build – or destroy – a constituency for free trade. We study the conditions under which these contrasting outcomes occur.EconomicsJournal Article256741100001Q2395