@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp10837,
            	author={Patt, Alexander and Ruhose, Jens and Wiederhold, Simon and Flores, Miguel},
            	title={International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills},
            	year={2017},
	month={Jun},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={10837},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10837},
	abstract={We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have higher manual skills and lower cognitive skills than non-migrants. 
Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor-market returns to occupational skills explain the observed selection pattern and significantly outperform previously used returns-to-skills measures in predicting migration. Results are persistent over time and hold within narrowly defined regional, sectoral, and occupational labor markets. },
	keywords={selection;international migration;skills;occupations},
            }