The place premium: bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers

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 valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United States,...

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Main Authors: Clemens, M, Montenegro, C, Pritchett, L
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press 2019