The informational structure of migration decision and migrants self-selection

Simone Bertoli

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 108, issue 1, 89-92

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.

Keywords: Migration; Uncertainty; Information; Self-selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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