favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the …This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The …

This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as … generates additional identification problems that have remained largely ignored. To tackle this second form of selectivity …

favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the …This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The …

This paper uses the quantitative spatial model with heterogeneous locations linked by costly goods trade, migration and … commuting developed in Monte et al. (2018) to address the workings of local labor markets in Germany. One key contribution … commuting measures have very little predictive power for these general equilibrium elasticities when the housing share is small …

commuting and physical capital mobility. Referring to the decline in mobility costs, we are able to explain that long …-distance commuting and foreign direct investment have increased and that industrial activity has become more concentrated both within as …

teacher assessment and exam scores for selecting successful students may vary with the degree of selectivity of higher … predictive power remains the same independently of the selectivity programme indicator considered. We found that national exam …' volatility and institutional selectivity as potential mechanisms to justify the results. Our results provide solid policy hints …

data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The … selectivity. Following the methodology presented in Neuman and Oaxaca (2004), four alternative decompositions are suggested and …

and the decision functions, for each level of education, is allowed and we correct for the potential selectivity bias. We … find empirical support for the existence of selectivity bias as the errors of the earnings functions are correlated with … of selectivity mechanisms that renders the decisions actually taken by individuals optimal in terms of comparative …

with country differences in the international transferability of skills to the US and the favorable selectivity of economic …

to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the … microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices. Although we estimate that the income gains from migration are very … different countries. Overall the data show a relatively limited role for income maximization in distinguishing migration …