The selection of migrants and returnees
Subtitle: evidence from romania and implications
By: J. William Ambrosini ... [et al.].
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16912; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16912.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper uses census and survey data to identify the wage earning ability and the selectivity of recent Romanian migrants and returnees.  We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skills-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990.  We find evidence for a sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries.  The premium to return migration increases with migrants' skills and drives the positive selection of returnees.  Based on the rationality of these migration decisions, a model of education, migration and return predicts positive long-run effects of increased migration for average skills and wages in Romania"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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