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 …

This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …

. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition …

test for cointegrating relationships corresponding to the patterns predicted by theory. We confirm episodes of expansion of …

decreases in the source-country price level and that the absolute magnitude of both relationships increases as the time to … respect to the nominal exchange rate and with respect to the source-country price level are both close to unity. Moreover, as …

Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led …'s likelihood rises with the relative commodity price and labor inflow; iii) a labor inflow under internal equilibrium results in a …