Temporary and permanent migrant selection: Theory and evidence of ability-search cost dynamics

The migrant selection literature concentrates primarily on spatial patterns. We integrate two workhorses of the labor literature, the Roy and search models, to illustrate the implications of migration duration for patterns of selection. Theory and empirics show that temporary migrants are intermedia...

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Main Authors:	Chen, Joyce J., Kosec, Katrina, Mueller, Valerie
Format:	Artículo preliminar
Language:	Inglés
Published:	International Food Policy Research Institute 2015
Subjects:	income labour market networks migration search costs
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150287