The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case...

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...

This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...

Der vorliegende Forschungsüberblick zeigt den Bildungserfolg von Migranten in Deutschland auf und bietet einen detaillierteren Einblick in die Bildungsleistungen von Migranten im Vorschulbereich. Im nächsten ifo Schnelldienst (Nr. 10/2013) werden die Leistungen von Migranten im Primar-,...

Der Beitrag diskutiert anhand eines Literaturüberblicks mögliche Determinanten des Schulerfolgs von Kindern mit Migrationshintergrund. Während im ersten Teil (ifo Schnelldienst 9/2013) der Vorschulbereich thematisiert wurde, befasst sich dieser zweite Teil mit den späteren Bildungsstufen....