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dc.contributor.authorBertoli, Simoneen
dc.contributor.authorFernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesúsen
dc.contributor.authorOrtega, Francescen
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-28-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-23T09:33:13Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-23T09:33:13Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/36837-
dc.description.abstractMany empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all relevant countries, namely the exodus of Ecuadorians to Spain and the US in the aftermath of the economic collapse of 1999. Specifically, we produce selection-corrected predictions of counterfactual individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across destinations and a rich structure of migration costs. We find that earnings significantly shape individual migration decisions, even in an episode in which Ecuadorians mostly chose Spain where earnings were lower than in the US, and they contribute to explaining the observed composition of migration flows. Moreover, our estimates show that changes in earnings at a particular destination have a larger effect on destination choice conditional on migration than on the scale of migration.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x4957en
dc.subject.jelF22en
dc.subject.jelO15en
dc.subject.jelJ61en
dc.subject.jelD33en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordInternational migrationen
dc.subject.keywordself-selectionen
dc.subject.keywordearningsen
dc.subject.keywordindividual-level dataen
dc.subject.stwInternationale Wanderungen
dc.subject.stwAuswanderungen
dc.subject.stwDiskrete Entscheidungen
dc.subject.stwEinkommenen
dc.subject.stwMigrationstheorieen
dc.subject.stwDeutschlanden
dc.subject.stwEcuadoren
dc.subject.stwEinwanderungen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.subject.stwSpanienen
dc.titleCrossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn626944201en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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