Leopold, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case...