International Migration as Occupational Mobility

Dean R. Lillard and Anna Manzoni ()

No 498, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: We investigate whether Germans immigrants to the US work in higher-status occupations than they would have had they remained in Germany. We account for potential bias from selective migration. The probability of migration is identified using life-cycle and cohort variation in economic conditions in the US. We also explore whether occupational choices vary for Germans who migrated as children or as adults. Our results allow us to decompose observed differences in occupational status of migrants and non migrants into the part explained by selection effects and the part that is causal, extending the literature on international migration.

JEL-codes: J24 J61 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 p.
Date: 2012
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-eur, nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-mig
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