The Efficiency Cost of the Kafala in Dubai: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
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Keywords
Labor sponsorship (Kafala); technical inefficiency; economic rents;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D2 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations
- L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
- O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ARA-2011-12-13 (MENA - Middle East and North Africa)
- NEP-EFF-2011-12-13 (Efficiency and Productivity)
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