We study selection and labour market outcomes among Ukrainian migrants using unique data from a survey conducted in Ukraine in August – October 2011. We find that migrants are positively selected in terms of age and education. Yet, this is not associated, as might be expected, with their...

The developed theoretical model analyzes the welfare effects of labor migration. I find that for the receiving country immigration enhances welfare as long as the marginal benefits to the natives' income exceed the social costs of immigration. Over-emigration of workers generated by free...

We study selection and labour market outcomes among Ukrainian migrants using unique data from a survey conducted in Ukraine in August - October 2011. We find that migrants are positively selected in terms of age and education. Yet, this is not associated, as might be expected, with their labour...