Biavaschi, Costanza; Elsner, Benjamin - 2013
receiving countries. Two episodes of mass migration serve as examples: the migration from Norway to the US in the 1880s and the … migration from Mexico to the US in the 2000s. We first estimate the degree of selection, and show that Norwegians were … positively and Mexicans negatively selected. In a simulation exercise, we compare the economy under selective migration with a …