previous literature. We distinguish between two types of migrants: labor and family migrants given their different labor market …. Controlling for the selective out-migration and endogeneity of labor supply, we find that labor out-migrants are positively … selected but family out-migrants are negatively selected. Furthermore, the findings underscore the importance of taking into …

We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing … to the Netherlands. The empirical results show that intensities of return migration are U-shaped with respect to migrants …

society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …

Estimation of empirical relationships is prone to bias. Economists have carefully identified and addressed sources of …

This paper exploits a quasi-experiment to shed light on whether the wage penalty experienced by migrants reflects poor … possibility for migrants to undertake an official assessment of their foreign qualifications, and remove the uncertainty … educated abroad. The assessment's effect weakens over time, as employers observe migrants' productivity. The effect of where …