Migration and development at home: Bitter or sweet return? Evidence from Poland

Jan Brzozowski and Nicola Coniglio

No 08-2016, SERIES from Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza - Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"

Abstract: The existing economic literature focuses on the benefits that return migrants offer to their home country in terms of entrepreneurship, human and financial capital accumulation. However, return migration can have modest or even some detrimental effects if the migration experience was unsuccessful and/or if the migrant fails to reintegrate into the home country's economy. In our paper, we empirically show which factors - both individual characteristics and features related to the migration experience - influence the likelihood of a sub-optimal employment of returnees' human capital employing an original dataset on a representative sample of return migrants in Silesia (Poland).

Keywords: return migration; international migration; economic performance; regional development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J24 O15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 277
Date: 2016-11, Revised 2016-11
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