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How Important Is Selection ? Experimental Versus Non-Experimental Measures Of The Income Gains From Migration / David McKenzie, John Gibson, Steven Stillman.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKenzie, David, author.
- Gibson, John, author.
- Stillman, Steven, author.
- Series:
- Discussion paper ; Volume Number 2087.
- Discussion paper ; Volume Number 2087
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Income distribution--New Zealand.
- Income distribution.
- Economic development.
- Equity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (47 pages).
- Other Title:
- Discussion paper vol. no. 2087
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Colombia : World Bank, 2006.
- Summary:
- Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, making it difficult to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of Tongans to immigrate each year with a lottery to choose among the excess number of applicants. A unique survey conducted by the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration by comparing the incomes of migrants to those who applied to migrate, but whose names were not drawn in the lottery, after allowing for the effect of non-compliance among some of those whose names were drawn.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1596/1813-9450-3906
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