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families to specific markets such as housing and labor. The techniques applied include traditional regression analysis … volume makes to the literature on discrimination, it also has the potential to contribute more broadly to labor economics …
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This paper study the issue of institutional enforcement of regulations by focusing on labor-market policies and their … potential link to economic performance. It test the different impacts of enforceable and non-enforceable labor regulations by … proxying non-enforceable labor rigidity measures using data on conventions from the International Labor Organization (ILO). It …
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programs. In particular, we study the link between training quality and labor earnings using a Peruvian program that targets …
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-privatization labor outcomes, such as more firing and less hiring. This paper uses new firm-level data for a cross section of countries to … in privatized firms is linked to negative labor outcomes. …
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Unlike previous empirical studies that focus on barriers to entry in international trade, we focus on barriers to exit as measured by passport costs for a cross-section of countries. We test four common theories on the determinants of such exit barriers and find that macroeconomic and...
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Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances, migration and development research has broadened to...
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Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants’ training before they migrate—linking skill creation and skill...
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Skilled workers have a rising tendency to emigrate from developing countries, raising fears that their departure harms the poor. To mitigate such harm, researchers have proposed a variety of policies designed to tax or restrict high-skill migration. Those policies have been justified as Pigovian...
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globalization of almost all factors of production—except labor. So far, this policy has failed to cause the living standards of most … people in most developing countries to converge with living standards in rich countries. But the globalization of labor … forward is for rich countries to greatly open up legal pathways for temporary labor movement. …
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Large numbers of doctors, engineers, and other skilled workers from developing countries choose to move to other countries. Do their choices threaten development? The answer appears so obvious that their movement is most commonly known by the pejorative term “brain drain.” This paper...
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