(positive selection) and more-educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill … simple model of income maximization can account for both phenomena. Results on selection show that migrants for a source …-destination pair are more educated relative to non-migrants the larger is the absolute skill-related difference in earnings between the …

migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skills …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a … sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases …

that an additional robot reduces employment and wages in an industry by roughly as much as an additional 2 to 3 workers and … wages. While the growth of robots in the 1996-2016 period of our data was too modest to be a major determinant of wages and …

decline in the observable human capital of famine-era Irish migrants compared to pre-famine Irish migrants and to other groups …