Long-term relatedness between countries and international migrant selection.

Autor/inn/en	Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Long-term relatedness between countries and international migrant selection. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Langfristige Verwandtschaft zwischen Ländern und Selektion internationaler Migranten.
Quelle	Bonn (2018), 64 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 11488
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Interkultureller Faktor; Motivation; Genetik; Sprachbarriere; Migration; Niedrig Qualifizierter; Qualifikation; Qualifikationsstruktur; Auswirkung; Welt; Ziel; Ethnische Gruppe; OECD (Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung); Hoch Qualifizierter; Migrant; Herkunftsland
Abstract	"This paper studies the effect of the long-term relatedness between countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. Analyzing bilateral migrant stocks of the 15 main destination countries and 85 sending countries for the year 2000, we find that migrant selection and genetic distance follow a nonlinear J-shaped pattern: at low levels of genetic distance, increases in genetic distance reduce the positive selection of migration. However, at higher levels of genetic distance, this pattern is reversed and migration becomes more positively selected. We complement this finding by showing that the net benefits of genetic distance are strongly decreasing for low-skilled migrants with increasing genetic distance, while high-skilled migrants are less responsive to genetic distance in general. Results are robust to conditioning on bilateral control variables, including various destination- and sending-country-specific fixed effects and applying an instrumental-variables approach that exploits exogenous variation in genetic distances in the year 1500." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/4