Are There Returns to Migration Experience? An Empirical Analysis using Data on Return Migrants and Non-Migrants in West Africa

Philippe De Vreyer, Flore Gubert and Anne-Sophie Robilliard

Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2010, issue 97-98, 307-328

Abstract: Does migrants' experience abroad provide an earnings premium for wage earners and/or a productivity advantage for entrepreneurs? In terms of earnings, we find that experience abroad results in a substantial wage premium for migrants returning from an OECD country but not for other return migrants. Past migration in an OECD country also results in a productive advantage for returnees who became entrepreneurs upon returning. However, the low share of return migrants in the population of WAEMU countries suggests that the effectiveness of return migration as a driver of development is only moderate.

Date: 2010
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Working Paper: Les migrants de retour valorisent-ils leur capital ? (2013)
Working Paper: Return Migrants in Western Africa: Characteristics and Labour Market Performance (2009)
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