Arbeitspapier
Decomposing Migrant Self-Selection: Education, Occupation, and Unobserved Abilities
We analyze self-selection and sorting of emigrants from Finland, using full-population administrative data from Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education, occupation, and unobserved abilities. Our analysis focuses on Finnish citizens satisfying three criteria: they were between 25-54 years of age; they had no immigrant background; and they were employed. We find that emigrants from Finland are strongly positively self-selected in terms of education and earnings. We also find strong evidence of sorting: men who emigrate outside Nordic countries are considerably better educated and have higher earnings and residual earning than men who emigrate to Nordic countries. Most of the self-selection in terms of higher earnings can be explained by emigrants being more educated. Adding occupational controls increases the fraction of explained self-selection only marginally. While men are positively self-selected also with respect to residual earnings, women are not.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 10334
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
International Migration
Returns to Education
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Thema
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international migration
self-selection
Roy model
education
residual earnings
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kauppinen, Ilpo
Poutvaara, Panu
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kauppinen, Ilpo
- Poutvaara, Panu
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2023
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