A mapping of labor mobility costs in developing countries (English)

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. The authors propose a method to estimate mobility costs using readily obtainable data worldwide. The estimator matches the changes in observed sectoral employment allocations with the predicted...

DETAILS

Author

Artuc,Erhan;

Lederman,Daniel;

Porto,Guido;
Document Date
2013/08/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS6556
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2013/08/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
A mapping of labor mobility costs in developing countries
Keywords
labor mobility

DOWNLOADS

COMPLETE REPORT

Official version of document (may contain signatures, etc)

Official PDF
TXT*
Total Downloads** : 1366
Download Stats
*The text version is uncorrected OCR text and is included solely to benefit users with slow connectivity.

Citation

Artuc,Erhan; Lederman,Daniel; Porto,Guido.

A mapping of labor mobility costs in developing countries (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6556 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/539811468325303178

A mapping of labor mobility costs in developing countries (English)

DETAILS

DOWNLOADS

COMPLETE REPORT

Citation

RELATED LINKS

SUBSCRIBE TO EMAIL ALERTS