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Source: David Horowitz Institute for Research of Developing Countries
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1. Schwartz, Aba
Nestel, Gilbert
Earnings of Migrants in their Origin and Destinations
Paper No. 17, David Horowitz Institute for Research of Developing Countries, Tel-Aviv University. , 1975
Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: David Horowitz Institute
Keyword(s): Earnings; Migration; Mobility; Mobility, Interfirm; Mobility, Job; Transfers, Financial; Work History

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The National Longitudinal Surveys provide us with a unique opportunity to travel in time with each individual as well as cross-sectionally among them, thus enabling us to identify the would-be migrants and to shed some light on their characteristics--particularly their earnings--before they moved. A firm conclusion of what result the act of migration held for them can then be obtained. One of our most important conclusions is that we have to interpret cross-section results with utmost care, as we can easily be misled by the results (sometimes unjustifiably in favor of our hypotheses). The authors were also able to shed some light on a conjecture by Becker in his 1964 "Human Capital," in which he claimed that interregional mobility may be low in the presence of substantial interregional differences in earnings due to specific and intransferable investment. The NLS data support his claim, especially when it is generalized to include the educational factor.
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Schwartz, Aba and Gilbert Nestel. "Earnings of Migrants in their Origin and Destinations." Paper No. 17, David Horowitz Institute for Research of Developing Countries, Tel-Aviv University. , 1975.