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A proximity-based approach to labor mobility in CGE models with an application to Sub-Saharan Africa

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The ease with which workers can move between sectors has a strong impact on the effects on labor markets of shocks such as changes in world prices or migration flows. This paper introduces an approach to labor mobility with frictions under which worker capabilities (their efficiencies in different sectors) depend on their sector affiliation. If workers in sector a move to sector a', their efficiency shortfall due to a capability misfit compared to what is needed in a'(and possessed by workers already in a') is measured by a proximity parameter, 0 ? proxa,a'? 1. If proxa,a'

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  • Lofgren,Hans & Cicowiez,Martin, 2017. "A proximity-based approach to labor mobility in CGE models with an application to Sub-Saharan Africa," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8151, The World Bank.
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