Romania relatively high rates of temporary migration might have positive long-run effects on average skills and wages … costs, we find evidence that the selection and sorting of migrants by skills is driven by different returns in countries of … destination. We also find that the return premium increases with migrants' skills and this drives the positive selection of …

technologies, associated with high total factor productivity and high returns to skills, are complementary to highly educated …. - Externalities ; Total Factor Productivity ; Schooling Laws ; College Graduate Immigrants ; Land Grant Colleges …

show that the main effect of migration operates through total factor productivity but not through institutional quality …. This is consistent with the idea that immigration increases the variety of skills and ideas available for production. We …