migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. Once we account for migration … costs, we find evidence that the selection and sorting of migrants by skills is driven by different returns in countries of …

In this paper we show that highly skilled undocumented migrants are more likely to return home than migrants with low … with the common wisdom on return decisions of legal migrants, according to which low-skill individuals are more likely to … go back home rather than highly skilled migrants …

in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is … speaking skills has been the least improved domain for humanitarian migrants' who have participated in an English training …

We test if migration leads to increased wages. We take the example of Polish migrants to the United Kingdom and focus … on the mobility of well educated Poles. We offer insights into absolute and relative change in wages of the migrants … are negligible or even insignificant for the highly skilled migrants from Poland to the UK. These results hold for both …

1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an … effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …