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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21649
来源ID	Working Paper 21649
	Self-Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics
	George J. Borjas; Ilpo Kauppinen; Panu Poutvaara
发表日期	2015-10-19
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized. The same conditions that have been shown to result in positive or negative selection in terms of expected earnings also imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the earnings distributions of migrants and non-migrants. We use the Danish full population administrative data to test the predictions. We find strong evidence of positive self-selection of emigrants in terms of pre-emigration earnings: the income distribution for the migrants almost stochastically dominates the distribution for the non-migrants. This result is not driven by immigration policies in destination countries. Decomposing the self-selection in total earnings into self-selection in observable characteristics and self-selection in unobservable characteristics reveals that unobserved abilities play the dominant role.
主题	International Economics ; International Factor Mobility ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21649
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579324
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	George J. Borjas,Ilpo Kauppinen,Panu Poutvaara. Self-Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics. 2015.