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Title: Education Quality, Migrant Selection, and US Immigrants' non-linear Returns to Home Country Education

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: This study analyzes US immigrants returns to education that was obtained in the home country. Linear estimates of these returns are strongly biased by the nonlinearity of actual returns, and by migrant selection. Higher migration costs imply selection of more educated migrants, and thus due to returns being convex higher linear estimates. New non-biased estimates of returns to college are significantly correlated with indicators of education quality in the home country. Yet returns to secondary education are not. Inference regarding the importance of education quality for low income levels in many countries is therefore not supported.

Url: http://www.economics.handels.gu.se/digitalAssets/1483/1483993_ruist-education-quality.pdf

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Authors: Ruist, Joakim

Publisher: University of Gothenburg

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Topics: Education, Migration and Immigration

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