Temporary and Permanent Migrant Selection: Theory and Evidence of Ability-Search Cost Dynamics
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- Joyce J. Chen & Katrina Kosec & Valerie Mueller, 2019. "Temporary and permanent migrant selection: Theory and evidence of ability‐search cost dynamics," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 23(4), pages 1477-1519, November.
- Chen, Joyce J. & Kosec, Katrina & Mueller, Valerie, 2015. "Temporary and permanent migrant selection: Theory and evidence of ability-search cost dynamics," IFPRI discussion papers 1496, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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networks; search costs; migration; Pakistan;JEL classification:
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MIG-2016-02-17 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-URE-2016-02-17 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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