TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bertoli, Simone
AU  - Dequiedt, Vianney
AU  - Zenou, Yves
        TI  - Can Selective Immigration Policies Reduce Migrants' Quality?
        PY  - 2015/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9538
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9538
        AB  - Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination. We show that the prevailing pattern of selection on unobservables influences the effect of an increase in selectivity, which can reduce migrants' quality when migrants are positively self-selected on unobservables. We also demonstrate that, in this case, the quality-maximizing share of educated migrants declines with the scale of migration.
        KW  - selective policies
KW  - self-selection
KW  - migrants' quality
        ER  -