Vortrag von Dr. Jens Ruhose am 05.12.17: „International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills“

Im Rahmen des Forschungskolloquiums des Instituts für Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Universität Freiburg möchten wir Sie herzlich zum Vortrag von

Dr. Jens Ruhose

(Universität Hannover)

über das Thema

International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills

einladen.

Der Vortrag findet am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2017, 11:00 Uhr s.t. in Raum 2330 KG II statt.

Abstract:

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have higher manual skills and lower cognitive skills than non-migrants. Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor-market returns to occupational skills explain the observed selection pattern and significantly outperform previously used returns-to-skills measures in predicting migration. Results are persistent over time and hold within narrowly defined regional, sectoral, and occupational labor markets.