Recovering the counterfactual wage distribution with selective return migration

Recovering the counterfactual wage distribution with selective return migration

This paper recovers the distribution of wages for Mexican-born workers living in the U.S. if no return migration of Mexican-born workers occurred. Because migrants self-select in the decision to return, the overarching problem addressed by this study is the use of an estimator that also accounts for selection on unobservables. I find that Mexican returnees are middleto high-wage earners at all ...

Recovering the Counterfactual Wage Distribution with Selective Return Migration

Recovering the Counterfactual Wage Distribution with Selective Return Migration This paper explores the distribution of immigrant wages in the absence of return migration from the host country. In particular, it recovers the counterfactual wage distribution if all Mexican immigrants were to settle in the United States and no out-migration of Mexican-born workers occurred. Because migrants self-...

Counterfactual Decomposition of Changes in Wage Distributions Using Quantile Regression

We propose a method to decompose the changes in the wage distribution over a period of time in several factors contributing to those changes. The method is based on the estimation of marginal wage distributions consistent with a conditional distribution estimated by quantile regression as well as with any hypothesized distribution for the covariates. Comparing the marginal distributions implied...

Counterfactual Decomposition of Changes in Wage Distributions via Quantile Regression with Endogenous Regressors

Counterfactual decomposition allows the researcher to analyze the changes in wage distributions by discriminating between the e¤ect of changes in the population characteristics and the e¤ect of changes in returns to these characteristics. In this paper we propose to apply this methodology by recovering the conditional distribution via a set of quantile regressions. Additionally, we also propose...

The New Migration: Global Labour Markets and Return Migration