Migrants' Savings, the Probability of Return Migration and Migrants' Performance

Oded Galor and Oded Stark

No 1989-19, Working Papers from Brown University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper highlights a difference between migrants and the native-born, namely, a positive probability of return migration. The analysis demonstrates that this probability results in migrants saving more than comparable native born. This differential may explain why, even if all workers are perfectly homogeneous in skills, migrants often outperform the native-born in the receiving economy.

Date: 1989
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