Do high-income or low-income immigrants leave faster?

G.E. Bijwaard, J. Wahba

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Abstract

CPC Policy Briefing BP18: Summary of research for policy and government.
The research: We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing countries. We use a three-state correlated competing risks model to account for the strong dependence of labor market status and the income earned. Our analysis is based on administrative panel data of recent labor immigrants from developing countries to The Netherlands. The empirical results show that intensities of return migration are U-shaped with respect to migrants' income, implying a higher intensity in low- and high- income groups. Indeed, the lowest-income group has the highest probability of return. We also find that ignoring the interdependence of labor market status and the income earned leads to an overestimating the income effect on departure.
Keywords: Migration dynamics; Labor market transitions; Competing risks; Immigrant assimilation
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationSouthampton
PublisherESRC Centre for Population Change
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Publication series

NameCPC Briefing Paper
No.BP 18

Keywords

  • policy briefing
  • Labor market transitions
  • Competing risks
  • Immigrant assimilation
  • Migration dynamics

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