In this paper we show that highly skilled undocumented migrants are more likely to return home than migrants with low … with the common wisdom on return decisions of legal migrants, according to which low-skill individuals are more likely to … go back home rather than highly skilled migrants …

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 …

of a number of undocumented migrants influences the decisions regarding labor supply, consumption, and savings of the … remaining undocumented migrants. We assume that the intensity of deportation serves as an indicator to the remaining … undocumented migrants when they assess the probability of being deported. We find that a higher rate of deportation induces …

of a number of undocumented migrants influences the decisions regarding labor supply, consumption, and savings of the … remaining undocumented migrants. We assume that the intensity of deportation serves as an indicator to the remaining … undocumented migrants when they assess the probability of being deported. We find that a higher rate of deportation induces …

migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. Once we account for migration … costs, we find evidence that the selection and sorting of migrants by skills is driven by different returns in countries of …

migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. Once we account for migration … costs, we find evidence that the selection and sorting of migrants by skills is driven by different returns in countries of …

migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. Once we account for migration … costs, we find evidence that the selection and sorting of migrants by skills is driven by different returns in countries of …