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

Govert Bijwaard, Christian Schluter and Jackline Wahba

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, vol. 96, issue 3, 483-494

Abstract: Using administrative panel data on the entire population of new labor immigrants to the Netherlands, we estimate the effects of individual labor 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 reemployment spells typically delay returns. © 2014 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Keywords: temporary migration; durations; timing of event method; labor market dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 J61 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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