Are migrant minorities strategically self-selected?

In this paper we focus on the possibility of migrants' self-selection throu gh strategic remittances. We argue that migrants of a specific community mi ght be pooled with migrants from other ethnic minorities on the labor marke t of the foreign host country and that this could reduce the occurrence of strategic remittances. In a simple model with two types of workers, skilled and unskilled, facing two possible actions, to migrate or not to migrate, we derive the theoretical conditions under which strategic transfers are st ill operating when pooling among communities is introduced. We then show th rough numerical illustrations that the case for strategic transfers is rath er weak when using realistic values for the main parameters of the model.