Can selective immigration policies reduce migrants' quality?

Simone Bertoli, Yves Zenou and Vianney Dequiedt ()

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Abstract: Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination. We show that the prevailing pattern of selection on unobservables influences the effect of an increase in selectivity, which can reduce migrants' quality when migrants are positively selfselected on unobservables. We also demonstrate that, in this case, the quality-maximizing share of educated migrants declines with the scale of migration.

Keywords: Selective; policies; Self-selection; Migrants'; quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 119, pp.100-109

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