This chapter discusses identification of common selection models of the labor market. We start with the classic Roy …

for risk and how much represents selection. The positive association between permanent risk and earnings is compensation … for risk, but selection is responsible for the observed relationship between temporary risk and the level of earnings. …

migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 …

We measure selection of high-skilled migrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries …, consistent with the prediction in Borjas (1987). Positive selection to less equal countries is driven by university quality and … grades, and negative selection to more equal countries by university subject and gender. Migrants to the U.S. are highly …

We provide simple tests for selection on unobserved variables in the Vytlacil-Imbens-Angrist framework for Local … Average Treatment Effects. The tests allow researchers not only to test for selection on either or both of the treated and … untreated outcomes, but also to assess the magnitude of the selection effect. The tests are quite simple; undergraduates after …

-equation ordered probit model with endogenous switching and study self-selection into government and private sector jobs. In an … sectors. A companion analysis of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel shows that selection on unobservables is reduced …