Do Cubans select themselves in their migration? From Cuba to the United States
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https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-revsocial.v3.1136Keywords:
Migration, Cuba, Self-selection, Education, Binary Logit ModelAbstract
The aim of this paper is to study the educational self-selection problem of Cuban migrants to the United States. For the analysis, we specify and estimate a binary logit model to analyze the observable covariates that explain migration probability. The data used in the study came from the United States Census of Population and Housing of 2010, and from the Cuba Census of Population and Housing of 2002. The results indicate that education, age and occupational covariates explain migration probability. Moreover, there is a positive educational self-selection problem, that is, migrate those people with more educational level. The principal contribution of this paper is demonstrate that a high level educational increases the probability to emigrate.
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