We analyze public expectations about migrants’ provision of work effort as a driving force in the self …-selection process of high-skilled migrants. We adopt and extend Piketty’s (1998) theoretical framework of social status and work out how … country-specific public expectations affect the migrants’ choice about their country of destination. As a result, we relate …

developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the … development of internal migrants compared to non-migrants, and also across countries as well as by urban and rural areas. An … empirical illustration for a sample of 16 low and middle income countries shows that, overall, internal migrants slightly …

been very little work on the implications for the estimation of socioeconomic gradients in test scores in the international …