This article studies the role of rainfall in determining the education composition of Mexico-US migration. Emphasizing … the relationship between rainfall and migration costs, a revised Roy model indicates that rainfall affects selection on … with a higher vertex when rainfall decreases, suggesting higher migration costs and reinforced self-selection patterns. The …

, particularly in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Whilst the long-term effects of being exposed to rainfall shocks early in … mechanisms through which these shocks operate. This paper analyses the effects of early exposure to rainfall shocks on four …-level rainfall estimates. The key identification strategy relies on temporary climatic shocks being uncorrelated with other latent …

, particularly in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Whilst the long-term effects of being exposed to rainfall shocks early in … mechanisms through which these shocks operate. This paper analyses the effects of early exposure to rainfall shocks on four …-level rainfall estimates. The key identification strategy relies on temporary climatic shocks being uncorrelated with other latent …

of schooling typical for a given occupation. The return to usual years of schooling across different occupations is found …

Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and preimmigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the official … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …

This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings … Census of the United States. Based on the average (mean or mode) level of schooling in their occupation, the schooling of the …. Immigrants have a wider variance in schooling, with an especially large proportion undereducated given the average schooling …

schooling that are above that which is usual for a worker's occupation are associated with very low increases in earnings … schooling serves as a pathway to occupational attainment, earnings appear to be more closely linked to a worker's occupation … than to the individual's level of schooling. …

payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller (2008). This decomposition links overeducation to the less-than- perfect … selection and the limited international transferability of human capital to the lower payoff to schooling for the foreign born …