Borjas, George J.; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized … full population administrative data to test the predictions. We find strong evidence of positive self-selection of … distribution for the non-migrants. This result is not driven by immigration policies in destination countries. Decomposing the self-selection …