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WHO LEAVES? THE OUTMIGRATION OF THE FOREIGN-BORN

George Borjas and Bernt Bratsberg

Chapter 5 in Foundational Essays in Immigration Economics, 2021, pp 93-104 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This paper analyzes the return migration of foreign-born persons in the United States. We argue that return migration may have been planned as part of an optimal life-cycle residential location sequence. Return migration also occurs because immigrants based their initial migration decision on erroneous information about opportunities in the United States. The study uses the 1980 Census and administrative data from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Immigrants tend to return to wealthy countries which are not too far from the United States. Moreover, return migration accentuates the type of selection characterizing the immigrant population left in the United States.

Keywords: Immigration; Economics; Labor Markets; Refugees; Self-selection; Return Migration; Migration; Costs and Benefits from Immigration; Assimilation; Cohort Effects; National Origin; Ethnicity; Neighborhood Effects; Ethnic Capital; Internal Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F66 J01 J15 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Journal Article: Who Leaves? The Outmigration of the Foreign-Born (1996) Downloads
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