are more talented than European and American players, there is evidence that they face lower training costs …

We develop a standard search-matching model in which mobility costs are so high that it is too costly for workers to … and commuting costs because firms need to compensate the transportation cost difference between the employed and …

distribution influences the estimation of structural parameters, such as migration costs. For US interstate migration, we obtain a … costs estimated by previous studies. We attribute this difference to the treatment of the dynamic self-selection problem …

; firing costs …

increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants. More stringent border enforcement either deters potential illegal … likely to be kidnapped, smuggled, or raped when crossing illegally. If migration costs are not the same for all migrants …, higher migrating costs may result in a change in the number and in the composition of immigrants to the United States. In the …

. -- Endogenous growth theory ; firm dynamics ; labor market regulation ; firing costs ; entry and exit ; firm selection …This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For this purpose, a model of … firms, and is sustained as entrants imitate the best incumbents. In this framework, firing costs not only induce …

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of … wealth and work status in 9 countries that characterized by very different levels of start-up costs and liquidity constraints …. The model predicts that, with liquidity constraints, the probability of entering entrepreneurship is an increasing …

investment costs. It is significant and negatively signed, implying complementarity between investment and hiring. There is a … substantial role for aggregate labor market conditions in hiring costs, whereby the latter are lower in "good times." The fit of …