Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Michael A. Clemens
Author-Person: pcl20
Author-Name: Claudio Montenegro
Author-Name: Lant Pritchett
Author-Email: lant_pritchett@hks.harvard.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: Center for International Development at Harvard University
Author-Person: ppr27
Title: Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers
Abstract: 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, with unique nationally-representative microdata on both U.S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting, for low-skill males, is greater than $13,700 per worker per year. Natural and policy barriers may each create annual global losses of trillions of dollars.
Creation-Date: 2016-03
Keywords: Immigration, Migration Barriers
Number: 67
Handle: RePEc:glh:wpfacu:67
File-Url: http://growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/files/growthlab/files/migration_barriers_cid_wp_316.pdf
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