Interdependent Hazards, Local Interactions, and the Return Decision of Recent Migrants

Govert Bijwaard and Christian Schluter

No 11780, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Consider the duration of stay of migrants in a host country. We propose a statistical model of locally interdependent return hazards in order to examine whether interactions at the level of the neighbourhood are present and lead to social multipliers. To estimate this model we develop and study two complementary estimation strategies, demonstrate their good performance while standard non-spatial estimators are shown to be heavily biased. Using a unique large administrative panel dataset for the population of recent labour immigrants to the Netherlands, we quantify the local social multipliers in several factual and counterfactual experiments, and demonstrate that these are substantial.

Keywords: social multipliers; local interaction; interdependent hazards; return migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 C31 C41 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2018-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-mig, nep-soc and nep-ure
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