TY - JOUR
T1 - Are migrant minorities strategically self-selected?
AU - Docquier, Frederic
AU - Rapoport, Hillel
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - In this paper we focus on the possibility of migrants' self-selection through strategic remittances. We argue that migrants of a specific community might be pooled with migrants from other ethnic minorities on the labor market of the foreign host country and that this could reduce the occurrence of strategic remittances. In a simple model with two types of workers, skilled and unskilled, facing two possible actions, to migrate or not to migrate, we derive the theoretical conditions under which strategic transfers are still operating when pooling among communities is introduced. We then show through numerical illustrations that the case for strategic transfers is rather weak when using realistic values for the main parameters of the model.
AB - In this paper we focus on the possibility of migrants' self-selection through strategic remittances. We argue that migrants of a specific community might be pooled with migrants from other ethnic minorities on the labor market of the foreign host country and that this could reduce the occurrence of strategic remittances. In a simple model with two types of workers, skilled and unskilled, facing two possible actions, to migrate or not to migrate, we derive the theoretical conditions under which strategic transfers are still operating when pooling among communities is introduced. We then show through numerical illustrations that the case for strategic transfers is rather weak when using realistic values for the main parameters of the model.
KW - Migrations
KW - Strategic self-selection
KW - Worker's remittances
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U2 - 10.1007/s001480050085
DO - 10.1007/s001480050085
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C2 - 12294788
AN - SCOPUS:0032218495
SN - 0933-1433
VL - 11
SP - 579
EP - 588
JO - Journal of Population Economics
JF - Journal of Population Economics
IS - 4
ER -