Reading Response: Self-Selection Patterns In Migration

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There are different factors that influence the migration patterns of individuals. The human capital theory explains that migration is an investment in which the productivity of the human characteristics are made to increase since two individuals will meet on alternative destinations and gain differently from each other in terms of the costs and other important human aspects. There are different factors that can motivate someone to move from one place to the other. An individual may decide to migrate if they have higher abilities or they are well-skilled and this can contribute to a relative distinction between the earnings or costs and it may increase the tendency of migration. The authors of the research paper illustrate how migration networks influence self-selection patterns of migration by examining different migration patterns of countries. In addition, the authors examine how the level of education as one of the self-selection factors has an effect on the migration patterns that are adopted by a given country. When the migrants have a high level of education, then it means that they will make a skilled population as compared when they have lower or no education at all.
By the use of the population data from the United States, the authors identify that there are individual characteristics that contribute to self-selection in migration. David and Hillel discuss that the individuals who have specific features may move so that they can benefit themselves and in such a way they will have self-selected themselves. It is not good to assume that a random sample of the migrants can represent the home cou...