Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/125055 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9538
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination. We show that the prevailing pattern of selection on unobservables influences the effect of an increase in selectivity, which can reduce migrants' quality when migrants are positively self-selected on unobservables. We also demonstrate that, in this case, the quality-maximizing share of educated migrants declines with the scale of migration.
Subjects: 
migrants' quality
self-selection
selective policies
JEL: 
F22
K37
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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