@article {1094631,
	title = {International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills},
	year = {2017},
	abstract = {We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings\&nbsp;materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican\&nbsp;task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United\&nbsp;States have higher manual skills and lower cognitive skills than non-migrants. Conditional on\&nbsp;occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential\&nbsp;labor-market returns to occupational skills explain the observed selection pattern and significantly\&nbsp;outperform previously used returns-to-skills measures in predicting migration. Results\&nbsp;are persistent over time and hold within narrowly defined regional, sectoral, and occupational\&nbsp;labor markets.},
	author = {Alexander Patt and Jens Ruhose and Simon Wiederhold and Miguel Flores}
}
