Why doesn't labor flow from poor to rich countries? Micro evidence from the European integration experience
Joining the EU is a natural experiment that drastically opens the borders of richer European countries to immigration. However, migration flows from southern Europe responded little to free migration after 1986, despite substantial differentials in real GDP per worker. The simple explanation we p...
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University of Oxford
2008
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