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Title: Do Relative Gains to Migration Vary? A Comparison of the Labour Market Performance of Indians in the UK, the USA and India
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Publication Year: 2006
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Abstract: We compare the labour market performance of immigrants from a single origin country, in two host countries with different migration policies, relative to their (counterfactual) position had they remained in their source country. While most studies of immigration focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative gains to migration may also influence the migration decision and that these gains will be influenced by differential relative costs across the skill distribution. Using data on Indian immigrants in the United States and Great Britain matched to comparable data on individuals who remained in India, we show that the average Indian immigrant will experience a fall in their relative ranking in the wage distribution compared to the position they would have achieved had they remained in the origin country. The fall in relative rankings is larger for immigrants to the US than to the UK, and largest of all for those with intermediate skills.
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Authors: De Coulon, Augustin; Wadsworth, Jonathan; Uk, Ac
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Institution: Center for Economic Performance
Pages: 25
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Migration and Immigration
Countries: United States