Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education …, occupation, and unobserved abilities. Our analysis focuses on Finnish citizens satisfying three criteria: they were between 25 … positively self-selected in terms of education and earnings. We also find strong evidence of sorting: men who emigrate outside …

students who moved across the East-West border after German reunification with students who moved within former East Germany …

We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized … imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the earnings distributions of migrants and nonmigrants. We use the Danish … emigrants in terms of preemigration earnings: the income distribution for the migrants almost stochastically dominates the …

-selected with respect to education, while male irregular migrants are not. We also find that both male and female migrants from …About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World …

Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and … France, using panel data on presidential elections from 1988 to 2017. To derive causal estimates, we instrument more recent …