Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … conducted by the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration to be obtained …

A key problem in the literature on the economics of migration is how emigration of an individual affects households … left behind. Answers to this question must confront a problem I refer to as invisible sample selection: when entire … country data, invisible sample selection yields biased estimates if all-move households differ from households that send only …

-optimistic expectations about the incomes they can earn abroad suggest excessive migration pressure. Yet there is almost no statistical … incomes in the migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution …

migration pressure, and in disappointment amongst those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how … migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution of expected …

to inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the … migration are affected by the way migrants adapt to their new economic conditions, by with whom migrants compare themselves … migration on SWB, although it is strongly suppressed by dissatisfaction resulting from the comparison of migrants' income with …

more widely studied restrictions on international trade. But estimated gains from migration may be affected by selection …Migration of workers from developing to developed countries and the resulting remittance flows are important … development policies. World Bank calculations show that restrictions on international migration have larger welfare costs than the …

The aim of this paper is to measure the returns to migration using non-experimental data taking both observed and … unobserved characteristics into account. A significant challenge related to migration research and the issues of unobserved … continuous treatment and outcomes, both of which are not appropriate for models of migration and many outcomes of interest …

This study exploits a new longitudinal dataset to examine selective migration among 1,500 Kenyan youth originally … living in rural areas. We examine whether migration rates are related to individual “ability”, broadly defined to include … due to selection versus actual productivity differences. Whereas previous empirical work has focused on schooling …

(english) This paper fills the gap between individual selection models and collective approaches of migration. We build …-household selection into migration in order to identify what are the key determinants of household members' location choices. We derive … individuelle et des approches collectives de la migration, apporte un éclairage nouveau sur la question centrale de la sélection …

We study selection and labour market outcomes among Ukrainian migrants using unique data from a survey conducted in … compare pre- and post-migration labour market outcomes and find that the probability of downshifting decreases with the … prior to migration in the home country was more likely to downshift abroad. Further, we find that migrants to the EU are …