"Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … population, making it hard to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to … by comparing the incomes of migrants to those who applied to migrate, but whose names were not drawn in the lottery …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … population, making it difficult to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to … incomes of migrants to those who applied to migrate, but whose names were not drawn in the lottery, after allowing for the …

migrants upgrading their education and changing their locations and occupations. This results in large sustained benefits to …

migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved …