A Mapping of Labor Mobility Costs in the Developing World

Estimates of labor mobility costs are needed to assess the responses of employment and wages to trade shocks when factor adjustment is costly. Available methods to estimate those costs rely on panel data, which are seldom available in developing countries. We propose a method to estimate mobility co...

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Main Authors: Artuc, Erhan, Lederman, Daniel, Porto, Guido
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20723