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Europe’s Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
Tired Poor Huddled Masses
2015/7/15
During the age of mass migration (1850–1913), one of the largest
migration episodes in history, the United States maintained a nearly
open border, allowing the study of migrant decisions unhindere...
Migration and Human Capital: Self-Selection of Indentured Servants to the Americas
eighteenth centuries Migration and Human Capital
2015/7/15
When contracting, European merchants could at least partially observe characteristics such as the health, physical strength, and education of indentured servants.
These characteristics, unobservable...
The effect of education on second births in Hungary: A test of the time-squeeze, self-selection and partner-effect hypotheses
education fertility Hungary partner effect second births
2014/11/24
Background: In recent years, several studies have reported a positive effect of women’s education on the transition to second births. This finding contradicts the economic theory of fertility. Three e...
Multiple Credit Ratings, Cost of Debt and Self-Selection
credit ratings default risk selection bias
2011/9/2
In a world where firms pay for credit ratings and (because of regulatory requirements) where some investors must pay attention to the ratings of some specified set of raters, it may well be in the int...
Time Squeeze, Partner Effect or Self-Selection? An Investigation into the Positive Effect of Women’s Education on Second Birth Risks in West Germany
education female employment fertility Germany second births
2008/12/4
This paper investigates the role of women’s education in the transition to the second child using data from the 1997 German micro-census. We begin our analysis with a simple model, which shows a posit...
Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany
return migration immigrant assimilation event history
2013/10/25
In this paper we seek to deepen understanding of out-migration as a social and economic process and to investigate whether cross-sectional earnings assimilation results suffer from selection bias. To ...
Heterogeneous Returns to Human Capital and Dynamic Self-Selection
Local returns to schooling average returns dynamic programming dynamic self-selection
2013/10/18
We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions and obtain individual specific estimates of the local (and average) returns to schooling as well as the returns to experience....
Portuguese Migrants in the German Labor Market:Performance and Self-Selection
Portuguese migration self-selection of migrants labor market performance of migrants migration policy
2013/10/17
Using a large new dataset, we analyze the labor market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of the natives, we...