Occupational Choice of Return Migrants in Moldova

Daniela Borodak () and Matloob Piracha
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Daniela Borodak: France Business School

No 5207, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper analyses the occupational choice of return migrants. Using the CBSAXA data on different aspects of migration in Moldova, we find that those who stayed illegally in the host country tend to go in wage employment on return to the home country. We also show that relatively better educated tend not be in formal employment, i.e., appear not to participate in the labour market whereas those with relatively lower skills or who obtained worse than expected outcome in the host country are more likely to be wage employed in the home country on return. We discuss intuition of these paradoxical results in the paper.

Keywords: sample selection; return migration; occupational choice; Moldova (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 F22 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2010-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-tra
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Published - published in: Eastern European Economics, 2011, 49 (4), 24-46

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