first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection mechanisms of receiving countries are reviewed in … selection. Next, the variation in immigrant characteristics across countries and visa types is discussed. The article then … different selection mechanisms and underlines the challenges for realizing aimed benefits of a skill based immigrant selection …

selection effects. Main focus is on accelerated duration models and the estimators that are of the limited information type, i ….e. they are not based on a fully specified selection model. The estimators are instrumental variable adaptations to the Powell … significantly longer times outside the unemployment state. There are strong indications of selection effects. …

group should be selected. Since the selection process is not known in most cases of business support, we use a stratified … application is granted. This gives raise to two types of selection; self–selection (whether to apply) and administrative selection … (getting funding). In the final analysis we address the issue of selection. The results of our evaluation points some important …

very careful about the intriguing selection issiies involved, and we also take account of the severe attrition in the data … set. Neglecting selection effects would lead to the result that training outside of the firm shows strong negative effects … selection effects, the results are completely reversed. Contrary to what is often alleged, we find in particular that training …

effects into components attributable to selection on unobservables, and to changes in the way that displaced workers are …