The Impact of Migration on Wages: Empirical Evidence from French Youth*

Cécile Détang‐Dessendre, Carine Drapier () and Hubert Jayet
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Cecile Detang-Dessendre

Journal of Regional Science, 2004, vol. 44, issue 4, 661-691

Abstract: Abstract. This paper deals with the impact of migration on wages. We introduce a spatial dimension into the job search framework, so that the agent faces neither the same job offer distribution nor the same search costs when looking for a job inside his local labor market. This is in comparison to the agent searching outside his local labor market, where migration costs are a factor. We estimate wage equations in which we introduce the decision to migrate as a binary choice, and later as a polychotomic choice (stayer/mover from provinces to Paris/mover from provinces to provinces). We find no selection effect for people with low levels of education, and a positive selection effect for highly educated migrants. When we distinguish the migration destination for highly educated from provinces, we find a hierarchical effect, that is, the selection effect is higher for men who migrate to Paris than for those who migrate to other provinces.

Date: 2004
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