This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their … skills acquired by migrants while abroad is related to the activity chosen upon return and the duration of migration. The … developed and developing countries, the economic development of the latter will increasingly depend on migrants' ability to …

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …

This paper exploits a quasi-experiment to shed light on whether the wage penalty experienced by migrants reflects poor … possibility for migrants to undertake an official assessment of their foreign qualifications, and remove the uncertainty … educated abroad. The assessment's effect weakens over time, as employers observe migrants' productivity. The effect of where …

This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in …-stage methodology using the 2002 China Household Income Project (CHIP), reveal that rural migrants become self-employed to avoid low … type of employment and residence status) shows that higher hourly wages of paid and self-employed urbanites over migrants …