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-induced restrictions to mobility. To identify the effects we exploit the fact that the placement of physical barriers by Israel was … exogenous to local labor market conditions. These barriers to mobility have a significant negative effect on employment, wages … are driven mainly by checkpoints and only a tiny portion of the effects is due to direct restrictions on workers' mobility …
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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries host at least 2.4 million foreign domestic workers, who are legally excluded from national labor laws and regulations, thus placing them in precarious social, legal, and economic conditions in the GCC labor markets. Despite the recent growth of...
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"Guest workers" earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper...
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This paper describes the patterns of worker turnover in selected Latin American countries and their implications for wage inequality. It documents a higher positive annual wage growth rate for job to job changers compared to stayers, due to turnover capturing the immediate gains from search...
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