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    • The place premium: Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers 
      Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro Muñoz, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant (MIT Press Journals, 2019)
      Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds ...
    • The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the US Border 
      Clemens, Michael; Montenegro Muñoz, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)
      We estimate the “place premium”—the wage gain that accrues to foreign workers who arrive to work in the United States. First, we estimate the predicted, purchasing-power adjusted wages of people inside and outside the ...