Immigrant selection before and after communism.

Autor/in	Ganguli, Ina
Titel	Immigrant selection before and after communism. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Selektion von Immigranten vor und nach dem kommunistischen Zeitalter.
Quelle	In: Economics of transition, 26 (2018) 4, S. 649-694 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0967-0750; 1468-0351
DOI	10.1111/ecot.12159
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Motivation; Migration; Ost-West-Migration; Transformation; Ökonomische Determinanten; Ziel; Bulgarien; Griechenland; Herkunftsland; Osteuropa; Russland; Sowjetunion; Spanien; USA; Ukraine
Abstract	"The end of the Soviet Union and communist regimes throughout Eastern Europe led to sudden increases in emigration and large changes in wage inequality. This has provided a unique opportunity to understand how these changes altered incentives to emigrate during the transition period. In this paper, I analyze immigrant selection before and after the fall of the Soviet Union within a Roy Model framework, in which the relative return to skills determines the skill composition of immigrants. Using micro-level data from Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria, matched to Census data on immigrants from these countries in the United States, Spain and Greece in the post-Soviet period, I find evidence of positive selection of immigrants in the US, and negative selection for Greece and Spain. Using retrospective data from Ukraine during the communist period, I find that selection among Soviet men in the US was intermediate and selection among women was positive." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/1