Since the early 1990s, most developing economies have become more integrated with the world's economy. Trade and foreign investment barriers have been progressively lifted and international trade agreements signed. These reforms have led to important changes in the structures of these economies....

This research article reports an investigation of immigration effects on the probability of being part of the formal labor market in Ecuador, a developing South American economy. We use data on the population of Ecuador as collected in the Census of Population and Dwelling 2010. Using a...

Um strukturschwache Regionen zu stärken, wird häufig in Erwägung gezogen, dort öffentliche Behörden anzusiedeln. Die zusätzlichen Arbeitsplätze und der Nachfrageeffekt der öffentlichen Hand sollen sich positiv auf den Arbeitsmarkt vor Ort auswirken. Während die Erwartungen der...

This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets —immigrants and unions —to examine the role of worker power in shaping immigrant sorting across firms, and how that subsequently influences the performance of firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First,...