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Returns to Returning
Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
selection issues are considered in the estimation of the earnings equation; we implement a natural method using MLE. The result …
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Returns to Returning: Who Went Abroad and What Does it Matter?
Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su; Gang, Ira N. - 1998
selection issues are considered in the estimation of the earnings equation. The result that there is a ?premium? to work …
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Fifty years of compositional changes in US out-migration, 1908-1957
Biavaschi, Costanza - 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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Self-selection patterns among return migrants: Mexico 1990-2010
Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-18
This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990-2010. To calculate the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have experienced had they never migrated by using the wage...
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The returns to temporary migration: The case of Italian Ph.D.s
Di Cintio, Marco; Grassi, Emanuele - 2016
This paper examines the implications of temporary migration episodes for two cohorts of Italian Ph.D.s. Special attention is given to the duration of experience abroad, its contribution to earned wages and the selectivity of returnees. After controlling for the endogeneity of both the migration...
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Recovering the counterfactual wage distribution with selective return migration
Biavaschi, Costanza - 2012
This paper explores the distribution of immigrant wages in the absence of return migration from the host country. In particular, it recovers the counterfactual wage distribution if all Mexican immigrants were to settle in the United States and no out-migration of Mexican-born workers occurred....
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Return migration and labour market outcomes of the returnees. Does the return really pay off? The case-study of Romania and Bulgaria
Shima, Isilda - 2010
In this study we analyse the labour market performance of Romanian and Bulgarian return migrants and whether it really pays off to return home. We looked at the employment dynamics of returnees from the perspective of employment and occupational status switches to capture the effects of the work...
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Occupational choice of return migrants
Piracha, Matloob - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
The occupational choice of return migrants is important to their home country. Return migrants are likely to have acquired human capital while abroad, either through formal training or by working in a more efficient labor market. The employment of these newly acquired skills in the home country...
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Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010
individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across … destinations and a rich structure of migration costs. We find that earnings significantly shape individual migration decisions …, even in an episode in which Ecuadorians mostly chose Spain where earnings were lower than in the US, and they contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269810
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Crossing the Border: Self-selection, Earnings and Individual Migration Decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Moraga, Jesus Fernandez-Huertas; … - 2010
individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across … destinations and a rich structure of migration costs. We find that earnings significantly shape individual migration decisions …, even in an episode in which Ecuadorians mostly chose Spain where earnings were lower than in the US, and they contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532818