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The Impact of Migration on Wages: Empirical Evidence from French Youth *
Author(s) -
DétangDessendre Cécile,
Drapier Carine,
Jayet Hubert
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1467-9787
pISSN - 0022-4146
DOI - 10.1111/j.0022-4146.2004.00353.x
Subject(s) - economics , wage , selection (genetic algorithm) , internal migration , dimension (graph theory) , empirical evidence , labour economics , demographic economics , economic growth , developing country , computer science , mathematics , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics , philosophy , epistemology
. This paper deals with the impact of migration on wages. We introduce a spatial dimension into the job search framework, so that the agent faces neither the same job offer distribution nor the same search costs when looking for a job inside his local labor market. This is in comparison to the agent searching outside his local labor market, where migration costs are a factor. We estimate wage equations in which we introduce the decision to migrate as a binary choice, and later as a polychotomic choice (stayer/mover from provinces to Paris/mover from provinces to provinces). We find no selection effect for people with low levels of education, and a positive selection effect for highly educated migrants. When we distinguish the migration destination for highly educated from provinces, we find a hierarchical effect, that is, the selection effect is higher for men who migrate to Paris than for those who migrate to other provinces.