International Migration Self Selection And The Distribution Of Wage
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International Migration Self Selection And The Distribution Of Wages
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Author : Daniel Chiquiar
language : en
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Release Date : 2005
International Migration Self Selection And The Distribution Of Wages written by Daniel Chiquiar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
We use the 1990 and 2000 Mexican and U.S. population censuses to test Borjas's negative-selection hypothesis that the less skilled are those most likely to migrate from countries with high skill premia/earnings inequality to countries with low skill premia/earnings inequality. We find that Mexican immigrants in the United States are more educated than nonmigrants in Mexico; and were Mexican immigrants to be paid according to current skill prices in Mexico, they would be concentrated in the middle of Mexico's wage distribution. These results are inconsistent with the negative-selection hypothesis and instead suggest that there is intermediate selection of immigrants from Mexico.
International Migration Self Selection And The Distribution Of Wage
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Author : Daniel Chiquiar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
International Migration Self Selection And The Distribution Of Wage written by Daniel Chiquiar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Emigration and immigration categories.
Self Selection In International Migration And Distribution Of Wages
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Author : Yan Qu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Self Selection In International Migration And Distribution Of Wages written by Yan Qu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Migration Self Selection And Income Inequality
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Author : Thomas Liebig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Migration Self Selection And Income Inequality written by Thomas Liebig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Wage Gaps And Migrantion Costs
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Author : Melania Salazar-Ordóñez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Wage Gaps And Migrantion Costs written by Melania Salazar-Ordóñez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Borjas (1987, 1991 and 1994) developed the self-selection theory, applying Roy's model (1951) to migration studies. He establishes that the characteristics of migrants in terms of skills and abilities are driven by wage distribution differences between the host country and home. In this regard, when the country of origin has higher relative returns for skills and more disperse income distribution, a negative selection of migrants is generated, and vice versa. A great deal of literature has studied Self-selection model to analyse how wage distribution influences migrants' decisions, leading to consistent and inconsistent results. Given the conflicting results in the literature, this paper examines how migration costs and wage differences influence self-selection patterns -i.e. skills in terms of schooling levels. Taking into account that self-selection can not be studied systematically by means of standard data sources because of the lack of data, we propose an analytical model based on the individual investment decision theory (Human Capital theory), applying simulated data by Monte-Carlo method. The theory of individual investment decisions allows us to analyze self-selection patterns across differences in wages and economic conditions at home and in host countries and to introduce uncertainty using a stochastic framework. An empirical application for long-distant migrations -from Ecuador to Spain- is implemented. Our findings show that migrants are positively selected on observable skills between Spain and Ecuador, considering both constant direct migration costs and constant direct migration costs-plus-variable opportunity migration costs. Secondary data from official sources confirm this tendency.
Self Selection And International Migration
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Author : Robert Kaestner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Self Selection And International Migration written by Robert Kaestner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Mexicans categories.
This paper uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to examine the patterns of selection of male, Mexican migrants to the United States. We confirm previous findings that Mexican migrants are selected from the middle of the education distribution, but show that there is no evidence for selection of migrants on cognitive ability. We demonstrate that migrants are also selected from the middle of the observed skill distribution, as measured by predicted wages. However, controlling for proxies of the costs of migration, we find substantially less evidence of "intermediate selection" on observed skill. We find little evidence for selection on unobserved skill, with or without controls for the costs of migration. Finally, we show directly that the decision to migrate is highly correlated with differential returns to observable skill and the costs of migration. Overall, these findings are consistent with the predictions of the canonical model of migration.
Mexican Immigration To The United States
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Author : George J. Borjas
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Mexican Immigration To The United States written by George J. Borjas and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Business & Economics categories.
From debates on Capitol Hill to the popular media, Mexican immigrants are the subject of widespread controversy. By 2003, their growing numbers accounted for 28.3 percent of all foreign-born inhabitants of the United States. Mexican Immigration to the United States analyzes the astonishing economic impact of this historically unprecedented exodus. Why do Mexican immigrants gain citizenship and employment at a slower rate than non-Mexicans? Does their migration to the U.S. adversely affect the working conditions of lower-skilled workers already residing there? And how rapid is the intergenerational mobility among Mexican immigrant families? This authoritative volume provides a historical context for Mexican immigration to the U.S. and reports new findings on an immigrant influx whose size and character will force us to rethink economic policy for decades to come. Mexican Immigration to the United States will be necessary reading for anyone concerned about social conditions and economic opportunities in both countries.
Self Selection Patterns In Mexico U S Migration
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Author : David J. McKenzie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Self Selection Patterns In Mexico U S Migration written by David J. McKenzie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Alien labor, Mexican categories.
The authors examine the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. They first present a simple theoretical framework showing how such networks impact on migration incentives at different education levels and, consequently, how they are likely to affect the expected skill composition of migration. Using survey data from Mexico, the authors then show that the probability of migration is increasing with education in communities with low migrant networks, but decreasing with education in communities with high migrant networks. This is consistent with positive self-selection of migrants being driven by high migration costs, and with negative self-selection of migrants being driven by lower returns to education in the U.S. than in Mexico.
Migration And Self Selection
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Author : Robert Nakosteen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Migration And Self Selection written by Robert Nakosteen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Research in regional and labor economics has established that economic incentives play a significant role in the process of internal migration. The most common approach is to view migration as a form of human capital investment undertaken by individuals who expect to benefit from the standpoint of increased earnings. One of the central concepts in these models is self-selection. Individuals who self-select the option of migration tend to differ from the nonmigrant population in ways that are not measured in most data sets. The contribution of this paper is in its distinction between two aspects of migrant selection. On one hand, some workers possess unmeasured traits that might simultaneously affect their wages and their propensity to engage in risky human capital investment such as migration. On the other hand, measured earnings might exert a direct effect on migration. Based on samples of employed Swedish males and females at two points in time, this study seeks first to examine whether migration between the two periods occurs in the presence of correlation between unmeasured factors present in both earnings during the first period and the subsequent decision to migrate. Second, it looks for an explicit role of earnings per se in the migration decision. Results of the study provide support for selection based on unmeasured traits for both genders. For females, there is also evidence of selection based on measured earnings.
Self Selection And The Earnings Of Immigrants
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Author : George J. Borjas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Self Selection And The Earnings Of Immigrants written by George J. Borjas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Emigration and immigration categories.
This paper analyzes the way in which the earnings of the immigrant population may be expected to differ from the earnings of the native population because of the endogeneity of the migration decision. The conditions that determine the nature of the self -selection are derived and depend on economic and political characteristics of the sending and receiving countries. The empirical analysis shows that differences in the U.S. earnings of immigrants with the same measured skills, but from different home countries, are attributable to variations in conditions in the country of origin at the time of migration.