Why Do Programmers Earn More in Houston Than Hyderabad? Evidence from Randomized Processing of US Visas
Why Do Programmers Earn More in Houston Than Hyderabad? Evidence from Randomized Processing of US Visas
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为什么休斯顿的程序员比海得拉巴的收入更高？
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2013
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Michael A. Clemens
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作者：
Michael A. Clemens
为什么美国的工人比印度的工人赚得多？这项研究在一个独特的环境中比较了两国工人的收入。产品是完全可交易的（软件），技术差异是零（他们是同一个工作团队的成员），工人的期望是相同的（进入美国的人是通过自然随机选择的）。结果表明，产出贸易性、技术和人力资本加在一起解释的收入差距远不到一半。地点本身可能对个别工人的工资和生产率有很大的影响，原因尚不清楚。
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 identical in expectation (those who enter the United States are chosen by natural randomization). The results suggest that output tradability, technology, and human capital together explain much less than half of the earnings gap. Location itself may have large effects on individual workers' wages and productivity, for reasons poorly understood.