robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …

robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …

migration by emphasising migrants’ own reflections and experiences. It asks whether and in which ways different welfare concerns … are part of migrants’ decisions regarding (or aspirations for) mobility. Employing a transnational and a translocal … perspective, the book addresses different forms of geographical mobility, such as immigration, emigration, and re-migration …

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 …

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 …

. Moreover, migrants might be favourably (self-)selected if the migration costs tend to decline with the skill level of migrants … inequality in the host and the home country, is associated with a favourable selection bias. -- international migration ; self …This paper reconsiders the (self-)selection of international migrants. In an extended Roy-model we analyse the factors …