Leopold, Stephan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to …, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case of Mexico-U.S. migration, we show that this inconsistency between … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …