Romania relatively high rates of temporary migration might have positive long-run effects on average skills and wages … migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. Once we account for migration …

Romania relatively high rates of temporary migration might have positive long-run effects on average skills and wages … migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. Once we account for migration …

the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. …This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate …

. In turn, migrants' decisions separate returning home from onward migration to a third country. We find that … to the predictions of the traditional model of migration, based on self-selection, migrants returning home are positively … selected relative to migrants emigrating to other countries. We also find that immigrants from a country outside the EU27/EFTA …

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …

This paper theoretically investigates how an increase in the supply of homogenous workers can raise wages, generating … workers' compensation. Moreover, an asymmetric equilibrium exists in which native workers are paid higher wages than …