Yashiv, Eran - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
of the skill distribution. This paper revisits theissue, using a self-selection model, a unique data-set on migrant … unobserved skilldistributions. The main findings are that there are two dimensions to self-selection: in terms ofobserved skills … skilled workers, leading to negative self-selection. In terms ofunobservable skills, self-selection is found to be positive …