Artuc, Erhan; Lederman, Daniel; Porto, Guido - In: Journal of International Economics 95 (2015) 1, pp. 28-41
Estimates of labor mobility costs are needed to assess the responses of employment and wages to trade shocks when … developing countries. We propose a method to estimate mobility costs using readily obtainable data worldwide. Our estimator … adjustment. We estimate a world map of labor mobility costs and we use those estimates to explore the response of labor markets …