• DOI:10.1016/J.JDEVECO.2010.06.003
Corpus ID: 26667533

Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants

@article{Grogger2008IncomeMA,
  title={Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants},
  author={J. Grogger and G. Hanson},
  journal={Labor: Human Capital},
  year={2008}
}

J. Grogger, G. Hanson

Published 2008

Economics

Labor: Human Capital

Two prominent features of international labor movements are that the more educated are more likely to emigrate (positive selection) and more educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill (positive sorting). Using data on emigrant stocks by schooling level and source country in OECD destinations, we find that a simple model of income maximization can account for both phenomena. Results on selection show that migrants for a source-destination pair… CONTINUE READING

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