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Title: Who wants to come to the U.S.?

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Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: This paper presents some new evidence about the relationshipbetween education and migration. This relationship is non-monotonic being none educated and high school degree holders the ones who migrate the most. Data do not support an explanation based in comparisons between net present value of wages in each country . I present another explanation based in different unobserved ability for different educational groups. I propose one way of treating unobserved heterogeneity by using information in temporary migrants. Matching data with the implications of the model, migrants are positively selected in terms of unobserved ability. This selection is different across educational groups, but this fact alone cannot explain the non-monotonicity. A composition of different migrations (legal and illegal) with different implied costs is proposed to solve the puzzle.

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Authors: Lacuesta, Aitor

Publisher: University of Chicago

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Migration and Immigration

Countries: United States