A proximity-based approach to labor mobility in CGE models with an application to Sub-Saharan Africa (English)

The ease with which workers can move between sectors has a strong impact on the effects on labor markets of shocks such as changes in world prices or migration flows. This paper introduces an approach to labor mobility with frictions under which worker capabilities (their efficiencies in different sectors) depend on their sector affiliation. If workers in sector a move to sector a', their efficiency shortfall due to a capability misfit compared to...

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Lofgren,Hans Lennart;

Cicowiez,Martin;
Document Date
2017/07/20
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS8151
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Africa,
Region
Africa,
Disclosure Date
2017/07/20
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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A proximity-based approach to labor mobility in CGE models with an application to Sub-Saharan Africa
Keywords
constant elasticity of transformation

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Lofgren,Hans Lennart; Cicowiez,Martin.

A proximity-based approach to labor mobility in CGE models with an application to Sub-Saharan Africa (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8151 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/212941500556224046

A proximity-based approach to labor mobility in CGE models with an application to Sub-Saharan Africa (English)

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