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on misperceptions that lead migrants to overestimate their probability of return migration, independently of their … staying that originate in migrant misperceptions. Our framework contains uncertainty about long-term wages, endogenous … characteristics. We show that these conditions involve pessimism about the destination country, either in terms of short-term utility …
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The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154986
Return migrants often come from either the top or bottom part of the foreign-born income distribution, leading to a U … demonstrates that the self-selection of return migrants is U-shaped if the costs of migration are higher for low …-skilled individuals. I test this model using data on migrants' intentions to return home, which are formed prior to potentially failing in …
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We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing … to the Netherlands. The empirical results show that intensities of return migration are U-shaped with respect to migrants …
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. The article is devoted to the policy on the return of labour migrants to Ukraine. The issues of the increasing number of … from Ukraine and boundary crossings by other migrants. By means of analysing the interaction between the rate of human …
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pessimism about the outcome of the war reduces return intentions. …
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We study the earnings of Mexican immigrants in their traditional and newer destinations in the US. Analysis based on longitudinal data suggests that during 2001-2009, the real wage of Mexican immigrants increased 1-2% a year at the traditional destinations, but remained mostly statistically...
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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...
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