Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural … and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad ….S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price … data from the German Consumer Price Index which covers the years 1998 to 2003. We strong find evidence of time- and state …-dependent price adjustment. Most importantly, the differences in unconditionalʺ sectoral price flexibility are found to be linked to …

short-term dynamics of individual markets. Furthermore, we examine whether logistics enter coal price dynamics through …

the degree of price rigidity that is inherent to the price setting mechanism (intrinsic) and that which is due to the … price's driving variables (extrinsic). Using two data sets consisting of a large fraction of the price quotes used to … compute the Belgian and French CPI, we are able to assess the role of intrinsic and extrinsic price stickiness in explaining …