individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across … destinations and a rich structure of migration costs. We find that earnings significantly shape individual migration decisions … explaining the observed composition of migration flows. Moreover, our estimates show that changes in earnings at a particular …

view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …

This paper examines the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. We … first present a simple theoretical framework showing how such networks impact on migration incentives at different education … levels and, consequently, how they are likely to affect the expected skill composition of migration. Using survey data from …

resulting from the high and heterogeneous returns to the occupation generated by active government support for the migration of …

results show that earnings have a negative coefficient in the estimated hazard function, in particular when interacted with … the second to the fourth year of migration spells. In terms of employment, there is a considerable employment differential …

experts may impact on the productivity and wages of domestic firms. Using matched worker-firm data from Denmark and a …

. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a … credible counterfactual of what the person and their household would have been doing had migration not occurred. Migration … impacts of migration. We provide an overview and critical review of the three strands of this approach: policy experiments …