-economic factors such as internal civil strife in the home country. Using a novel data set from the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM … immigration studies have overemphasized the role played by differences in the distributions of countries' wages and skills … characteristics. -- Immigration ; developing country ; self-selection …

-economic factors such as internal civil strife in the home country. Using a novel data set from the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM … immigration studies have overemphasized the role played by differences in the distributions of countries' wages and skills …