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Why is the Roy-Borjas model unable to predict international migrant selection on education? : evidence from urban and rural Mexico
Leopold, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case...
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Why Is the Roy-Borjas model unable to predict international migrant selection on education? : evidence from urban and rural mexico
Leopold, Stephan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320684
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Rainfall and self-selection patterns in Mexico-US migration
Li, Shan - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/22, pp. 1-32
This article studies the role of rainfall in determining the education composition of Mexico-US migration. Emphasizing the relationship between rainfall and migration costs, a revised Roy model indicates that rainfall affects selection on education through not only households' liquidity...
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Self-employment and migration
Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David J. - 2019
There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of...
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Graduate migration in Italy : lifestyle or necessity? : ERSA 2011 - conference paper
Marinelli, Elisabetta - 2011
This paper studies the locational choice of Italian mobile graduates, tackling simultaneously three aspects. First it … degree. Results indicate that social networks are a much stronger determinant of the destination of graduates than regional … characteristics, that to apply one's knowledge it is necessary to move to highly innovative areas, and that graduates from different …
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International migration as occupational mobility
Lillard, Dean R.; Manzoni, Anna - 2012
We investigate whether Germans immigrants to the US work in higher-status occupations than they would have had they remained in Germany. We account for potential bias from selective migration. The probability of migration is identified using life-cycle and cohort variation in economic conditions...
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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities of Immigrants : New Perspectives on Migrant Quality from a Selective Immigration Country
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2019
Economic theory suggests that selective immigration policies based on observable characteristics will affect unobservable migrant quality. Little empirical evidence exists on this hypothesis. We quantify traditionally unobservable components of migrant quality in Australia, a high-migrant share...
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Networks and selection in international migration to Spain
Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel; Steinbacher, Anne - 2013 - This version: May 2013
This paper provides new evidence on migrant networks as determinants of the total size (scale) and skill structure of migration, using aggregate data from a recent migration boom to Spain. We draw upon McFadden (1984, 1422-1428) in order to develop and apply a three-level nested multinomial...
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Culture, selection, and international migration : conference paper
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2014 - Preliminary
This paper looks at the e ffect of cultural barriers on the skill selection of international migration. The data covers bilateral migration stocks by skill level in 2000 from about 99 sending countries to the main 15 destination countries. We use genetic distance as a proxy for cultural distance...
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Migration and aspirations : are migrants trapped on a hedonic treadmill?
Czaika, Mathias; Vothknecht, Marc - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-21
Based on longitudinal information from two waves of the Indonesian Family and Life Survey (IFLS) in 2000 and 2007, we find evidence that migrants are self-selected along higher individual aspirations acquired (or, inherited) before migration. About 70 per cent of aspiration differentials can be...
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