How Important Is Selection? Experimental vs. Non-experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration

How much do migrants stand to gain in income from moving across borders? Answering this question is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, which makes it hard to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. New Zealand allows a quota of Tongans to imm...

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Main Authors: McKenzie, David, Gibson, John, Stillman, Steven
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4758