Self-selection and migrants' destination choice: A study of Puerto Ricans in the United States and Puerto Rico

The long-standing claim that migrating individuals are uniformly positively selected (i.e. possessing labor market skills of higher economic value than those who do not migrate) has been challenged in recent years. Research suggesting that some immigrants to the United States possess below average s...

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Main Author: Kuenzi, Jeffrey John
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1998
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9909178