Why Do Programmers Earn More in Houston than Hyderabad? Evidence from Randomized Processing of US Visas.
Why do workers earn so much more in the United States than in India? This study compares the earnings of workers in the two countries in a unique setting. The product is perfectly tradable (software), technology differences are nil (they are members of the same work team), and the workers are identi...
| Publicado en: | American Economic Review Vol. 103; no. 3; pp. 198 - 203 |
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