migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. Once we account for migration … costs, we find evidence that the selection and sorting of migrants by skills is driven by different returns in countries of …

This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over … slightly in the last years. Austria is, however, characterised by a high share of medium skilled migrants and a low share of … highly skilled migrants. In addition among the pool of migrants in the EU from a given country, Austria generally selects the …

from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study finds that the performance of migrants from countries with lower … initial occupational placement levels improves at a higher rate compared with that of migrants originating from countries with …