Can selective immigration policies reduce migrants' quality?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bertoli, Simone; Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves
• 署名单位: Universite Clermont Auvergne (UCA); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Stockholm University; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.11.002
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 100-109
• 关键词: Selective policies; self-selection; Migrants' quality

摘要

Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination. We show that the prevailing pattern of selection on unobservables influences the effect of an increase in selectivity, which can reduce migrants' quality when migrants are positively self-selected on unobservables. We also demonstrate that, in this case, the quality-maximizing share of educated migrants declines with the scale of migration. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.