migrants. We use migration aspiration data from the Gallup World Poll Surveys which provide the preferred location choices of … Mexico but would also create heterogeneous immigration pressures from Mexico across potential foreign locations. In …

The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to …, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case of Mexico-U.S. migration, we show that this inconsistency between … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …

that Mexican migrants to the United States have higher manual skills and lower cognitive skills than non-migrants …

migration for low-skilled migrants. Results are robust to the inclusion of sending and destination country fixed effects …