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The Informational Structure of Migration Decision and Migrants’ Self-selection

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2010
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Economics Letters, 2010, 108, 1, 89-92
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BERTOLI, Simone, The Informational Structure of Migration Decision and Migrants’ Self-selection, Economics Letters, 2010, 108, 1, 89-92 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/15294
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We analyze the pattern of migrants' self-selection in unobservables when there is uncertainty about foreign wages. Negative selection becomes more likely, and a greater dispersion of wages at destination no longer suffices to predict that immigrants will outperform natives
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