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Modeling Migration Dynamics of Immigrants
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2008
Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. Based on data from Statistics Netherlands we … analyze both the departure and the return from abroad for recent non-Dutch immigrants to The Netherlands. Results disclose … both models, for departure and returning, provides the probability that a specific migrant ends-up in The Netherlands. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325773
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The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest: evidence from the Pacific
Gibson, John; McKenzie, David - 2009
A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269137
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Emigration and the age profile of retirement among immigrants
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Stillman, Steven - 2008
This paper analyzes the relationship between immigrants' retirement status and the prevalence of return migration from the host country to their country of origin. We develop a simple theoretical model to illustrate that under reasonable conditions the probability of return migration is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269003
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Returning to the question of a wage premium for returning migrants
Barrett, Alan; Goggin, Jean - 2010
Using data from a large-scale survey of employees in Ireland, we estimate the extent to which people who have emigrated from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have never lived abroad. In so doing, we are testing the hypothesis that migration can be part of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269471
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Immigrant circulation and citizenship: hotel Canada?
DeVoretz, Don J. - 2009
naturalized Canadian immigrants who leave for a third country (USA) or return home (Hong Kong) experience positive selection and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269475
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Circular migration or permanent return: what determines different forms of migration?
Vadean, Florin P.; Piracha, Matloob - 2009
This paper addresses the following questions: To what extent do the socio-economic characteristics of circular/repeat migrants differ from migrants who return permanently to the home country after their first trip (i.e. return migrants)? and What determines each of these distinctive temporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269514
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A note on brain gain and brain drain: Permanent migration and education policy
Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2010
In this note, we present a novel channel for a brain gain. Students from a developing country study in a developed host country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in the first place. However, it induces the host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270869
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Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany
Constant, Amelie F.; Massey, Douglas S. - 2003
In this paper we seek to deepen understanding of out-migration as a social and economic process and to investigate whether cross-sectional earnings assimilation results suffer from selection bias. To model the process of out-migration we conduct a detailed event history analysis of men and women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272300
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Labour market outcomes and skill acquisition in the host country: North African migrants returning home from the European Union
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Tani, Massimiliano - 2011
This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their decisions about the choice of activity upon returning and the duration of migration. The theoretical model builds on Dustmann (1999), Dustmann and Kirchkamp (1992) and Mesnard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274641
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Occupational choice of return migrants in Moldova
Borodak, Daniela; Piracha, Matloob - 2010
This paper analyses the occupational choice of return migrants. Using the CBSAXA data on different aspects of migration in Moldova, we find that those who stayed illegally in the host country tend to go in wage employment on return to the home country. We also show that relatively better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274678