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The Impact of Labor Market Dynamics on the Return Migration of Immigrants

Govert E. Bijwaard1; Christian Schluter; Jackline Wahba2

1 Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute · 2 University of Southampton

The Review of Economics and Statistics 2014 open access

Using administrative panel data on the entire population of new labour immigrants to The Netherlands, we estimate the effects of individual labour market spells on immigration durations using the “timing-of-events” method. The model allows for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across migration, unemployment and employment processes. We find that unemployment spells increase return probabilities for all immigrant groups, while re-employment spells typically delay returns.

DOI
10.1162/rest_a_00389
Volume
96 (3)
Pages
483-494
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en
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