This paper examines learning by migrating effects on the productivity of migrants who move to the ``megalopolis" from … framework to empirically test for self-selection on the migration decision and learning by migrating. The role of the …

measures of future labor-market outcomes, the probability of large-firm employment (rather than the stream of future earnings …

Part of the rationale for NAFTA was that it would increase trade and FDI flows, creating jobs and reducing migration to … mechanism behind these predictions using data on migration within Mexico where the census data permit careful analysis. We offer … the first specifications for migration within Mexico incorporating measures of cost of living, amenities and networks …

Recent evidence based on longitudinal firm-level data suggests that within-firm productivity growth explains about 50 … percent of total factor productivity growth in the manufacturing sector while net entry effects account for about 30 percent … of total factor productivity growth. These two forces may be connected via learning by doing of young businesses. That is …

southern part of India. We have estimated earnings functions for union and non-union workers separately. The earnings functions … gross earnings differential between union and non-union workers into explained and unexplained differentials. The result …