Using administrative panel data on the entire population of new labour immigrants to The Netherlands, we estimate the … causal effects of labour dynamics on their return decisions. Specifically, the roles of unemployment and re-employment spells … the model separately for distinct immigrant groups, and find that, overall, unemployment spells shorten immigration …

Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …