Return Migration, Wage Differentials, and the Optimal Migration Duration
Author : Christian Dustmann
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Christian Dustmann
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Christian Dustmann
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Christian Dustmann
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Return migration
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Page : 0 pages
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The result we derive is that given the process of transmission and the formation of preferences, the inability of the first cohort to act upon its migration preferences does not affect the overall magnitude of migration, only its intertemporal structure. [...] In those populations in which the link between a taste for migration and the chances of survival has been severed, transmission is wholly cultural; the presence of the taste in adults will be replicated by the presence of the taste in children if the adults are present but not if the adults are absent. [...] If wages in the city F are higher than in the home village H, while the price of the consumption good is lower in H than in F, the village H individual will migrate to F (for work) in the first period and return-migrate to H (for consumption) in the second period. [...] The optimal duration of migration is shorter than the duration of life, and the returns to migration are realised when the individual returns to H. [...] The family context Consider a second possibility in which the individual is affiliated with a family and refer to the simple case in which the affiliation takes the form of marriage.
Author : Oded Stark
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Alien labor
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Author : Russell King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317524594
This book, originally published in 1986, based on extensive original research, presents many findings on the phenomenon of return migration and on its impact on regional economic development. It remains the only study of its kind. International in scope, the book includes chapters on return migration in Italy, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Jordan, Canada, Jamaica, Algeria and the Middle East.
Author : Costanza Biavaschi
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Page : 149 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Puerto Rico
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This dissertation focuses on the importance of return migration for the sending and the receiving economies. Although an extensive literature has analyzed immigration, much less is known about the immigrants who choose to leave the host country and to return to their home country. Who are these returnees? What is the impact of this outflow of migrants on the host country labor market equilibrium? Using a dataset constructed from the Annual Reports of the Immigration and Naturalization Services, Chapter 2 studies the outflow of migrants from the U.S. between 1908 and 1957, and the impact of international labor movements on the U.S. labor market. Between 1900 and 1930 the outmigrants were primarily low skilled workers, although in the subsequent decades the outmigrants are progressively drawn from skilled occupations. This outflow is counter-cyclical, and partially reduces the labor market impact of the inflow of migrants. The third chapter analyzes the importance of self-selectivity in return migration from both the host country and the source country perspective. I study the nature of the selection process in return migration and in labor force participation of persons born in Puerto Rico (source economy) who return from the U.S. mainland (destination economy). Return migrants are negatively selected both in terms of observable and unobservable traits. Therefore, selective return migration persistently causes an underestimation of the wage process of the stayers in the U.S. The findings suggest that Puerto Ricans are able to sort across alternative locations based on their comparative advantage in each market. The fourth chapter studies the return choice of a cross-section of Mexican immigrants. In particular, it asks what would the immigrant wage distribution be in the absence of return migration. The overarching problem of this chapter is the development of a consistent estimator for this wage distribution. A semiparametric procedure is proposed. Mexican returnees are found to be middle to high wage earners, and return seem therefore to happen once individuals have reached their desired goals in the host country. In the absence of return migration the immigrant-native wage gap would be closing.
Author : Ruth Achenbach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3658160276
Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in return migration decision making of Chinese highly skilled workers and students in Japan. She proposes to answer a question yet insufficiently explained by migration research: why do migrants deviate from their migration intentions and return sooner or later than planned, or not at all? Her study integrates factors from the spheres of career, family and lifestyle, and redefines stages in long-term decision-making processes, thereby contributing to decision and migration theory. She analyzes migrants’ shifting priorities over the course of migration, including a perspective on life course and on the impact of the triple catastrophe of March 11, 2011.
Author : Jouke van Dijk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 940157846X
Author : Barry Chiswick
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0444537651
The economic literature on international migration interests policymakers as well as academics throughout the social sciences. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s. This literature appears in the general economics journals, in various field journals in economics (especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues), in interdisciplinary immigration journals, and in papers by economists published in journals associated with history, sociology, political science, demography, and linguistics, among others. - Covers a range of topics from labor market outcomes and fiscal consequences to the effects of international migration on the level and distribution of income – and everything in between. - Encompasses a wide range of topics related to migration and is multidisciplinary in some aspects, which is crucial on the topic of migration - Appeals to a large community of scholars interested in this topic and for whom no overviews or summaries exist