The Selection of Migrants and Returnees : Evidence from Romania and Implications

J. William Ambrosini, Karin Mayr, Giovanni Peri, Dragos Radu

This paper uses census and survey data to identify the wage earning ability and the selectivity of recent Romanian migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skills-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases with migrants' skills and drives the positive selection of returnees. Based on the rationality of these migration decisions, a model of education, migration and return predicts positive long-run effects of increased migration for average skills and wages in Romania

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Year of publication:	March 2011
Authors:	Ambrosini, J. William
Other Persons:	Radu, Dragos (contributor) ; Peri, Giovanni (contributor) ; Mayr, Karin (contributor)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Rumänien \| Romania \| Migranten \| Migrants \| Arbeitsmigranten \| Migrant workers \| Qualifikation \| Occupational qualification \| Lohn \| Wages

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Series:	NBER working paper series ; no. w16912
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers.
Other identifiers:	10.3386/w16912 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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