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The Impact of Migration on Wages: Empirical Evidence from French Youth.
- Source :
- Journal of Regional Science; Nov2004, Vol. 44 Issue 4, p661-691, 31p
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- This paper deals with the impact of migration on wages. We introduce a spatial dimension into the job search framework, so that the agent faces neither the same job offer distribution nor the same search costs when looking for a job inside his local labor market. This is in comparison to the agent searching outside his local labor market, where migration costs are a factor. We estimate wage equations in which we introduce the decision to migrate as a binary choice, and later as a polychotomic choice(stayer/mover from provinces to Paris/mover from provinces to provinces). We find no selection effect for people with low levels of education, and a positive selection effect for highly educated migrants. When we distinguish the migration destination for highly educated from provinces, we find a hierarchical effect, that is, the selection effect is higher for men who migrate to Paris than for those who migrate to other provinces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- WAGES
EMIGRATION & immigration
YOUTH
LABOR market
REGIONAL economics
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00224146
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Regional Science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 14699851
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-4146.2004.00353.x