How important is selection? experimental vs. non-experimental measures of the income gains from migration /

"Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, making it hard to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of...

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Main Author: McKenzie, David J
Other Authors: Gibson, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bonn, Germany : IZA, [2006]
Series:Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ; no. 2087
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