migration is a common phenomenon, with 38% of skilled migrants returning to their origin countries within 10 years. Return …. Migrants to advanced economies are positively selected on ability relative to stayers, while within this migrant population …

and wages in Romania … 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 …

migrants. In this article, we first summarize recent findings characterizing migrants' long-term economic assimilation and … the selection patterns of Italian migrants to Argentina--the largest migratory group to this destination. Our analysis of … this initial stage of the migrants' history shows that Italians who moved to Argentina were positively selected on the …

(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 …

that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and … of increased openness on human capital and wages of the sending countries. We find that, for plausible values of the …