A Revision of the Self-selection of Migrants Using Returning Migrant's Earnings

Lacuesta, Aitor

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“…2 Lacuesta (2010) and Reinhold and Thom (2009) both recently provide evidence of selection and skill upgrading for Mexican returnees in Mexico. Lacuesta (2010) argues that return migrants are similar to stayers, suggesting that the 7% wage premium found upon return might actually be caused by the selection of return migrants that were unaccounted for in the analysis. Meanwhile, Reinhold and Thom (2009), using the Mexican Migration Project (which is not a representative sample), estimate the experiences of returnees to the U.S. labor market by correcting for the endogeneity of migration decisions.…”

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“…This has common aspects with the standard models in the migration literature. In fact, the mean independence of the error term from the explanatory variables in the outcome and selection equations is typical in linear regression models (Kaestner and Malamud, 2010;Lacuesta, 2010;Reinhold and Thom, 2009), and in the non-parametric analyses based on pre-migration earnings (e.g., Ambrosini and Peri, 2012;Fernandez-Huertas Moraga, 2011) as selection is here recovered only if the subdivision into cells is assumed to be exogenous. 12 These models further conjecture the absence of an Ashenfelter dip, and that expectations of migration and return do not influence the individual's behavior before migrating.…”

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“…In the first set of regressions, the observable characteristics include those regressors used in previous analyses on Mexican-U.S. selection, namely education, age, and family status (Kaestner and Malamud, 2010;Fernandez-Huertas Moraga, 2011;Ambrosini and Peri, 2012;McKenzie and Rapoport, 2010;Lacuesta, 2010). Moreover, the indicator of having a U.S.-born spouse is included in order to capture the constructs of "attachment"and "networks,"which have both been shown to be relevant in this type of analysis (McKenzie and Rapoport, 2010;Ambrosini and Peri, 2012).…”

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“…Several important contributions to the body of knowledge on this topic have examined how return migration influences the average wage levels of immigrants (Hu, 2000;Lubotsky, 2007), especially Mexican immigrants (Lindstrom and Massey, 1994;Reinhold and Thom, 2009;Lacuesta, 2010). The major challenges faced by of all these studies, however, are the lack of administrative data collected by immigration authorities and the fact that individuals self-select into the decision to return.…”

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“…Therefore, they all have certain limitations. For example, some have no actual information on return migrants but rather infer return migration from survey samples (Hu, 2000;Lubotsky, 2007), some fail to use representative samples (Lindstrom and Massey, 1994;Reinhold and Thom, 2009), while others argue against the importance of selectivity and compare Mexicans in Mexico with and without experience in the U.S. (Lacuesta, 2010).…”

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Recovering the counterfactual wage distribution with selective return migration

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2016

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.IZA Discussion Paper No. 6795 August 2012 ABSTRACT Recovering the Counterfactual Wage Distribution with Selective Return MigrationThis paper explores the distribution of immigrant wages in the absence of return migration from the host country. In particular, it recovers the counterfactual wage distribution if all Mexican immigrants were to settle in the United States and no out-migration of Mexican-born workers occurred. Because migrants self-select in the decision to return, the overarching problem addressed by this study is the use of an estimator that accounts also for selection on unobservables. I adopt a semiparametric procedure that recovers this counterfactual distribution and find that Mexican returnees are middle-to high-wage earners at all levels of educational attainment. The presented results contrast with the general perception that those migrants who return home have failed in the host country.JEL Classification: J61, F22

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Existing literature suggests that remittances can help households in developing countries cope with post‐shock consumption. Focusing on Nigeria, where remittance receipts reached $25B in 2018 with increasing incidences of shocks, this study puts this claim to the test by categorising households into two: the group that suffered the most severe shock types and the group that suffered less severe shock types. Data is sourced from the World Bank and linearised regression results indicate that remittances benefit households that experienced less severe shocks than households that experienced the most severe shocks in their post‐shock consumption. Establishing a discriminatory financial market in favours of shock‐affected households is desirable to aid them in coping with post‐shock consumption.

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Selection, selection, selection: the impact of return migration

Wahba

2015

J Popul Econ

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The evidence on the impact of return migration on the sending country is rather sparse, though growing. The contribution of this paper is in addressing various selectivity problems whilst quantifying the impact of return migration on wages of returnees using non-experimental data.Using Egyptian household level survey data, I estimate the wages of return migrants controlling for several selectivity biases arising from emigration choice, return migration choice, labor force participation choice and occupational choice following return. The findings provide strong evidence that overseas temporary migration results in a wage premium upon return, even after controlling for the various potential selection biases. However the estimates underscore the significance of controlling for both emigration and return migration selections. Ignoring the double selectivity in migration would overestimate the impact of return migration on the wage premium of returnees, as migrants are positively selected relative to non-migrants, but returnees are negatively selected amongst migrants.

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A Revision of the Self-selection of Migrants Using Returning Migrant's Earnings

Cited by 27 publications

References 13 publications

Recovering the counterfactual wage distribution with selective return migration

Recovering the counterfactual wage distribution with selective return migration

Categorising households based on shock severity experience: The effects of remittances on consumption smoothing post‐shock in Nigeria

Selection, selection, selection: the impact of return migration

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