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Self-Selection Patterns among Return Migrants: Mexico 1990-2010
Vázquez, Raymundo M. Campos; Lara, Jaime Lara - Centro de Estudios Económicos, Colegio de México - 2011
currently live in Mexico. To calculate the selection patterns, we non parametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the … that the selection patterns change over time toward negative selection. For example, in 1990, the wages that the male … return migrants would have experienced had they not migrated was 6 percent larger than the wages of male non migrants …
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Returns to Returning
Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 1999
We examine the labor market performance of return migrants using the Hungarian Household Panel Survey. Two distinct selection issues are considered in the estimation of the earnings equation; we implement a natural method using MLE. The result that there is a "premium" to work experience abroad...
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Recovering the Counterfactual Wage Distribution with Selective Return Migration
Biavaschi, Costanza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper explores the distribution of immigrant wages in the absence of return migration from the host country. In …
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Fifty Years of Compositional Changes in U.S. Out-Migration, 1908-1957
Biavaschi, Costanza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Immigration authorities have seldom collected data on the out-migration of the foreign-born. As a consequence, several indirect approaches have been proposed to measure and study out-migration. This paper adds to the literature by using official statistics that directly identify the...
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Returns to returning
Co, Catherine Y.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - In: Journal of Population Economics 13 (2000) 1, pp. 57-79
We examine the labor market performance of return migrants using the Hungarian Household Panel Survey. Two distinct selection issues are considered in the estimation of the earnings equation; we implement a natural method using MLE. The result that there is a "premium" to work experience abroad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005169435
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Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique
Batista, Catia; McIndoe Calder, Tara; Vicente, Pedro C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Does return migration affect entrepreneurship? This question has important implications for the debate on the economic development effects of migration for origin countries. The existing literature has, however, not addressed how the estimation of the impact of return migration on...
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Stayers and Returners: Educational Self-Selection among U.S. Immigrants and Returning Migrants
Esteva, Aguilar; Alberto, Arturo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper empirically examines the educational selectivity of United States immigrants and of those that return to their source country. Data from the 1970 to 2000 U.S. Census and the 2010 American Community Survey are employed. Ten countries are selected for the study based on their historical...
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Heaven's Swing Door: Endogenous Skills, Migration Networks and the Effectiveness of Quality-Selective Immigration Policies
Bertoli, Simone; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
A growing number of OECD countries are leaning toward adopting quality-selective immigration policies. The underlying assumption behind such policies is that more skill-selection should raise immigrants' average quality (or education level). This view tends to neglect two important dynamic...
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Family reunification or point-based immigration system? The case of the U.S. and Mexico
Real, Joel López - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011
While the immigration policy in the U.S. is mainly oriented to family reunification, in Australia, Canada and the U.K. it is a points-based immigration system which main objective is to attract high skilled immigrants. This paper compares both immigration policies through the transition for the...
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Family reunification or point-based immigration system? The case of the United States and Mexico
López Real, Joel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
While the immigration policy in the United States is mainly oriented to family reunification, in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. it is a points-based immigration system which main objective is to attract high skilled immigrants. This paper compares both immigration policies through the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246867