title: Are migrant minorities strategically self-selected?
abstract: "In this paper we focus on the possibility of migrants' self-selection through strategic remittances. We argue that migrants of a specific community might be pooled with migrants from other ethnic minorities on the labor market of the foreign host country and that this could reduce the occurrence of strategic remittances. In a simple model with two types of workers, skilled and unskilled, facing two possible actions, to migrate or not to migrate, we derive the theoretical conditions under which strategic transfers are still operating when pooling among communities is introduced."
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Docquier
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rapoport
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D003710:Demography; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005006:Ethnicity; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Cultural Background; Demographic Factors; Economic Factors; Employment Status; Ethnic Groups; Immigrants; International Migration--determinants; Labor Migration; Microeconomic Factors; Migrants; Migration; Models, Theoretical; Occupational Status; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Remittances--determinants; Research Methodology; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; World