Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (34 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
Parallel Title:
McKenzie, David A Land of Milk And Honey With Streets Paved With Gold
Keywords:
Accurate Information
;
Annual Income
;
Bank
;
Consumer
;
Consumer Goods
;
Demands
;
Earnings
;
Economic Theory and Research
;
Education
;
Finance and Financial Sector Development
;
Financial Literacy
;
Fiscal and Monetary Policy
;
Health Systems Development and Reform
;
Health, Nutrition and Population
;
Household Income
;
Income
;
Income
;
Incomes
;
Information
;
Labor Markets
;
Labor Policies
;
Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
;
Money
;
Population Policies
;
Public Sector Development
;
Remittances
;
Social Protections and Labor
;
Accurate Information
;
Annual Income
;
Bank
;
Consumer
;
Consumer Goods
;
Demands
;
Earnings
;
Economic Theory and Research
;
Education
;
Finance and Financial Sector Development
;
Financial Literacy
;
Fiscal and Monetary Policy
;
Health Systems Development and Reform
;
Health, Nutrition and Population
;
Household Income
;
Income
;
Income
;
Incomes
;
Information
;
Labor Markets
;
Labor Policies
;
Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
;
Money
;
Population Policies
;
Public Sector Development
;
Remittances
;
Social Protections and Labor
;
Accurate Information
;
Annual Income
;
Bank
;
Consumer
;
Consumer Goods
;
Demands
;
Earnings
;
Economic Theory and Research
;
Education
;
Finance and Financial Sector Development
;
Financial Literacy
;
Fiscal and Monetary Policy
;
Health Systems Development and Reform
;
Health, Nutrition and Population
;
Household Income
;
Income
;
Income
;
Incomes
;
Information
;
Labor Markets
;
Labor Policies
;
Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
;
Money
;
Population Policies
;
Public Sector Development
;
Remittances
;
Social Protections and Labor
Abstract:
Millions of people emigrate every year in search of better economic and social opportunities. Anecdotal evidence suggests that emigrants may have over-optimistic expectations about the incomes they can earn abroad, resulting in excessive migration pressure, and in disappointment among those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how accurately these emigrants predict the incomes that they will earn working abroad. In this paper the authors combine a natural emigration experiment with unique survey data on would-be emigrants' probabilistic expectations about employment and incomes in the migration destination. Their procedure enables them to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution of expected earnings in the destination country. The authors find a significant underestimation of both unconditional and conditional labor earnings at all points in the distribution. This underestimation appears driven in part by potential migrants placing too much weight on the negative employment experiences of some migrants, and by inaccurate information flows from extended family, who may be trying to moderate remittance demands by understating incomes
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