data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The … selectivity. Following the methodology presented in Neuman and Oaxaca (2004), four alternative decompositions are suggested and …

favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the …This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The …

and the decision functions, for each level of education, is allowed and we correct for the potential selectivity bias. We … find empirical support for the existence of selectivity bias as the errors of the earnings functions are correlated with … of selectivity mechanisms that renders the decisions actually taken by individuals optimal in terms of comparative …

level in their occupation. Immigrants are shown to receive approximately the same rate of return to the required … with country differences in the international transferability of skills to the US and the favorable selectivity of economic …

to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the … large, not everyone migrates and many return. Within this group of highly skilled individuals the emigration decision is …. Likewise, the decision to return is strongly linked to family and lifestyle reasons, rather than to the income opportunities in …

migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved … these selectivity issues using the randomization provided by an immigration ballot under the Pacific Access Category (PAC … to address the second selectivity issue. Using this natural experiment we examine the myriad impacts that migration has …