The place premium : wage differences for identical workers across the US border (English)

This paper compares the wages of workers inside the United States to the wages of observably identical workers outside the United States-controlling for country of birth, country of education, years of education, work experience, sex, and rural-urban residence. This is made possible by new and uniquely rich microdata on the wages of over two million individual formal-sector wage-earners in 43 countries. The paper then uses five independent methods...

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Clemens,Michael A.;

Montenegro,Claudio E.;

Pritchett,Lant Hayward;
Document Date
2008/07/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS4671
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Bolivia, United States, Nigeria,
Region
Western and Central Africa, Other, Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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The place premium : wage differences for identical workers across the US border
Keywords
wage ratio

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Clemens,Michael A.; Montenegro,Claudio E.; Pritchett,Lant Hayward.

The place premium : wage differences for identical workers across the US border (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4671|World Development Report background papers; 2009 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/528191468333932945

The place premium : wage differences for identical workers across the US border (English)

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