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 …

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

initial share of immigrant high school dropouts from Europe, China and India. In both data sets, the positive impacts of …

(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 …

our findings represent the effect of information transmission between Mexican migrants living in the U.S. and residents of …