DUAL SELECTION CRITERIA WITH MULTIPLE ALTERNATIVES - MIGRATION, WORK STATUS, AND WAGES

This study develops and implements a new method to account for selecti vity bias that results from a two-stage choice with multiple alternati ves. The estimation method can handle any number of alternatives at ea ch level, modeled under any distributional assumption, as long as one is able to express the condition for selecting a particular alternativ e at each level statistically in the form of a single equation. The te chnique is demonstrated for a situation where people choose one of thr ee regions and one of two work modes.