Neuer Diskussionsbeitrag: Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection (Tim Krieger, Laura Renner, Jens Ruhose)

This paper looks at the eect of the relatedness of two countries, measured
by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral
country-level education-specic migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the
15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that country pairs with larger
genetic distances exhibit more selected migrant stocks compared to country pairs
with smaller genetic distances on average. The eect is driven by country pairs
with genetic distances above the median, suggesting that genetic distance must
be suciently large to constitute a barrier to migration for low-skilled migrants.
Results are robust to the inclusion of sending and destination country xed eects,
bilateral control variables, and an instrumental variables approach that exploits
exogenous variation in genetic distances in the year 1500.

Siehe auch:

Give Me Your Genetically Huddled Masses. (Besprechung des Artikels im CESifo Newsletter)

Eine Übersicht der bisherigen Diskussionsbeiträge sowie das aktuelle Working Paper finden Sie hier.