Remigration intentions and migrants' behavior

Bastien Chabé-Ferret (), Joël Machado and Jackline Wahba

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, vol. 68, issue C, 56-72

Abstract: Using a unique French dataset, we analyze the relationship between remigration intentions and several immigrants' behaviors in the host and origin countries addressing the potential endogeneity of remigration intentions. We also investigate the potential trade-off and complementarities between various immigrants' investment behaviors. We find that temporary migrants are more likely to invest in the country of origin but less likely to invest in the host country. Moreover, our results suggest a trade-off between immigrants' investment in the home and in the host country.

Keywords: Temporary migration; Intention to leave; Return intention; Remittances (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D14 F22 F24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2017.10.018

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