Labor Adjustment Costs across Sectors and Regions

This paper estimates the mobility costs of workers across sectors and regions in a large sample of developing countries. The paper develops a new methodology that uses cross-sectional data only. This is motivated by the fact that panel data typical...

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Main Authors:	Cruz, Marcio, Milet, Emmanuel, Olarreaga, Marcelo
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	LABOR MOBILITY INTERNAL MIGRATION ADJUSTMENT COSTS SECTOR MOBILITY REGIONAL MOBILITY INTERNET
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/181111509642976782/Labor-adjustment-costs-across-sectors-and-regions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28852

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spelling	okr-10986-288522021-06-14T10:11:50Z Labor Adjustment Costs across Sectors and Regions Cruz, Marcio Milet, Emmanuel Olarreaga, Marcelo LABOR MOBILITY INTERNAL MIGRATION ADJUSTMENT COSTS SECTOR MOBILITY REGIONAL MOBILITY INTERNET This paper estimates the mobility costs of workers across sectors and regions in a large sample of developing countries. The paper develops a new methodology that uses cross-sectional data only. This is motivated by the fact that panel data typically are not available for most developing countries. The results suggest that, on average, sector mobility costs are higher than regional mobility costs. The costs of moving across sectors and regions are higher than the costs of moving across only sectors or only regions. In poorer countries, workers face higher mobility costs. The paper provides evidence suggesting that mobility costs, particularly across sectors, are partially driven by information assimetries and access to the Internet can mitigate these costs. 2017-11-14T21:05:57Z 2017-11-14T21:05:57Z 2017-11 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/181111509642976782/Labor-adjustment-costs-across-sectors-and-regions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28852 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8233 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic	LABOR MOBILITY INTERNAL MIGRATION ADJUSTMENT COSTS SECTOR MOBILITY REGIONAL MOBILITY INTERNET
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8233
description	This paper estimates the mobility costs of workers across sectors and regions in a large sample of developing countries. The paper develops a new methodology that uses cross-sectional data only. This is motivated by the fact that panel data typically are not available for most developing countries. The results suggest that, on average, sector mobility costs are higher than regional mobility costs. The costs of moving across sectors and regions are higher than the costs of moving across only sectors or only regions. In poorer countries, workers face higher mobility costs. The paper provides evidence suggesting that mobility costs, particularly across sectors, are partially driven by information assimetries and access to the Internet can mitigate these costs.
format	Working Paper
author	Cruz, Marcio Milet, Emmanuel Olarreaga, Marcelo
author_facet	Cruz, Marcio Milet, Emmanuel Olarreaga, Marcelo
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title	Labor Adjustment Costs across Sectors and Regions
title_short	Labor Adjustment Costs across Sectors and Regions
title_full	Labor Adjustment Costs across Sectors and Regions
title_fullStr	Labor Adjustment Costs across Sectors and Regions
title_full_unstemmed	Labor Adjustment Costs across Sectors and Regions
title_sort	labor adjustment costs across sectors and regions
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/181111509642976782/Labor-adjustment-costs-across-sectors-and-regions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28852
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Labor Adjustment Costs across Sectors and Regions

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