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Title: Networks, sorting and self-selection of Ecuadorian migrants

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: This paper provides new empirical evidence about the influence exerted by migrationnetworks upon migrants self-selection in education from the analysis of the recent process ofEcuadorian migration. The severe economic crisis that hit Ecuador in the late 1990s induced amassive wave of migration, from a country which was characterized by a substantial geographicalvariability in the size of migration networks. As Ecuadorian migrants opted for a variety ofdestination countries in the aftermath of the crisis, we estimate a multinomial logistic model toassess the impact of migration networks on both migrants sorting and self-selection. The estimatesare in line with the theoretical arguments which predict that migration networks increase thelikelihood or the extent of a negative self-selection of the migrants with respect to education.

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Authors: Bertoli, Simone

Publisher: Institute for Employment Research

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other

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