This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate … the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. …

paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation challenges when migrations are temporary. As in an overwhelming share of the … problem becomes inherently dynamic and requires a more structural approach to estimation, which we briefly discuss. …

. In turn, migrants' decisions separate returning home from onward migration to a third country. We find that … to the predictions of the traditional model of migration, based on self-selection, migrants returning home are positively … selected relative to migrants emigrating to other countries. We also find that immigrants from a country outside the EU27/EFTA …

Demographic factors in migrant-sending countries can influence international migration flows. But when migrants move … migrants, who predominantly move on a temporary basis, encounter new fertility norms in their host countries and then bring …