The labour market impact of mobility restrictions: Evidence from the West Bank

Massimiliano Calì and Sami Miaari ()

No 130, HiCN Working Papers from Households in Conflict Network

Abstract: Using data on Israeli closure in the Palestinian West Bank, we provide new evidence on the labour market effects of conflict-induced restrictions to mobility. We exploit the fact that the placement of physical barriers by Israel was exogenous to local labour market conditions and find a causal negative effect of these barriers on employment, wages and days worked per month. On the other hand the barriers had a positive impact on the number of hours per working day. These effects are driven mainly by checkpoints and only a tiny portion of the effects is due to direct restrictions on workers� mobility. Despite being an under-estimation of the actual effects, the overall costs of the barriers on the West Bank labour market are far from being negligible: in 2007 for example these costs amounted to 6% of GDP.

Keywords: Conflict; Palestine; Israel; mobility; closures; Intifada (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J40 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2012-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-mig
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Journal Article: The labor market impact of mobility restrictions: Evidence from the West Bank (2018)
Working Paper: The labor market impact of mobility restrictions: evidence from the West Bank (2013)
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