Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions combat COVID-19 transmission. Here we exploit a natural experiment whereby Colombian implemented varied lockdown policies based on ID number gender analyse impact of these urban mobility. Using mobile phone data, find that restrictiveness cities’ quotas (the share residents allowed out daily according pol...

Labour migration is a pervasive feature of economic development. People mobility for temporary or permanent labour purposes is a routine part of agricultural activity. There are very significant migration flows in some developing areas, with considerable impacts on individuals, households and regions at origin. Despite the growing debate about motivations and impacts of recent migration flows, ...

This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship, and th...

Labour Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities* This Paper analyses the labour mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white-collar occupations, where the labour market randomly offered opportunities are affe...

This paper creates a pseudo cohort of individuals who left school in the mid-1990s, using Labour Force Survey. The extent of low achievement at school amongst this group is documented, and then the impact of such low achievement on labour force status is estimated. The main focus of the paper is then to investigate to what extent unqualified school leavers can improve their labour market status...

In Hungary, the wages of government workers were frozen and in some cases reduced between 2008 and 2012. Within this very diverse set of employees, resident physicians were the only group capable of taking successful collective action and achieving wage increases that were extended to the entire health-care sector. However, the 2011 mass resignation campaign organized by the Hungarian Associati...

Macro data collected during the 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census was used for analysis of results in this paper. It establishes emigration levels, trends and patterns, and further establishes similarities and contrasts between Kenya’s emigration structure and standard migration schedule (Rogers and Watkins (1987) Age Migration Schedule). The results depict an increase in emigration volu...

This paper presents a specific factor model of a small open economy to show the factor price effect and welfare effect of offshoring. Different to ambiguous wage effect conclusions of offshoring under Heckscher-Ohlin framework, the conclusions of this paper is clear-cut. Offshoring will benefit specific factor (skilled labour and land), hurts some non-specific factor (unskilled labour), and enl...