Return or Not Return? The Role of Home-Country Institutional Quality in Vietnamese Migrants’ Return Intentions

Ngoc Tran, Michael Cameron and Jacques Poot

Working Papers in Economics from University of Waikato

Abstract: Previous research has shown that institutions matter in decisions regarding migration. This paper extends investigation of the role of institutional quality in migration to the return intentions of international migrants. Using data from a web-based survey that we conducted in OECD countries in 2016, we examine both micro-level and macro-level determinants of the intentions to repatriate among Vietnamese migrants. The results of our logistic regression analysis suggest that those migrants who attach greater importance to the institutional quality in Viet Nam are less likely to have the intention to return than other Vietnamese migrants. However, there is considerably heterogeneity by gender. The concern about institutional quality in Viet Nam is only statistically significant for males. Nonetheless, our findings underscore the necessity of institutional reforms in Viet Nam to encourage return migration for development.

Keywords: institutional quality; international migration; return intentions; Viet Nam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2018-03-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-int, nep-mig, nep-sea and nep-tra
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