This paper examines the impact of the legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return to the home country …. Using unique data from Egypt, which allows us to distinguish between return migrants according to their type of … legal status of temporary migration, we find that, upon return, undocumented migrants witness a wage penalty compared to …

decisions of migrants regarding their own educational investment and their expectations about future migration plans may affect … migrate, both in the home and in the host country. By easing credit constraints through remittances, migration of some may … in certain types of human capital. In addition, migrants and their children may create externalities that influence …

respective migrant networks. Concerning remittances, the results indicate that temporary migrants remit around 30% more than … remittances patterns. Using a new detailed household dataset on migration in the Republic of Moldova, it is shown that return is … temporary migration is relatively more favorable for developing countries as it fosters higher remittances, repatriation of …