Arbeitspapier
Can Selective Immigration Policies Reduce Migrants' Quality?
Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination. We show that the prevailing pattern of selection on unobservables influences the effect of an increase in selectivity, which can reduce migrants' quality when migrants are positively self-selected on unobservables. We also demonstrate that, in this case, the quality-maximizing share of educated migrants declines with the scale of migration.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9538
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
International Migration
Immigration Law
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- Thema
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migrants' quality
self-selection
selective policies
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bertoli, Simone
Dequiedt, Vianney
Zenou, Yves
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bertoli, Simone
- Dequiedt, Vianney
- Zenou, Yves
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2015
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