Moving from a poor economy to a rich one: A job tasks approach

Eran Yashiv

Labour Economics, 2021, vol. 72, issue C

Abstract: This paper studies outcomes for workers moving from a poor to a rich economy employing a job tasks based approach. It uses a data case, whereby a worker could decide to work in a richer economy and place himself there by a daily or weekly commute. This set-up faciliates the disentanglement of income differences motives from a plethora of other motives. Thus it eschews the bias inherent in many studies.

Keywords: Movers and stayers; Rich and poor economies; Migrant tasks; Location-task-wage bundle; Pure income effects; TFP differentials; Human capital differences; Self-selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 F22 F66 J24 J31 J61 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102032

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