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