the migrants and economic growth of the states of origin and destination in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach Fixed …

effect on the ratio of high-skilled to low-skilled migrants. Simplifying restrictions on substitutability across destinations …

The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …

The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …

county, then 1.9 additional black migrants made the same move on average. For white migrants from the Great Plains, the … average is only 0.4. Networks were particularly important in connecting black migrants with attractive employment …

This paper reconsiders the (self-)selection of international migrants. In an extended Roy-model we analyse the factors … which affect the selection bias of migrants. In particular, we find that migrants need not necessarily be (un …. Moreover, migrants might be favourably (self-)selected if the migration costs tend to decline with the skill level of migrants …