The informational structure of migration decision and migrants self-selection

Abstract

"We analyze the pattern of migrants' self-selection in unobservables when there is uncertainty about foreign wages. Negative selection becomes more likely, and a greater dispersion of wages at destination no longer suffices to predict that immigrants will outperform natives." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bertoli, S. (2010): The informational structure of migration decision and migrants self-selection. In: Economics Letters, Vol. 108, No. 1, p. 89-92. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2010.04.024