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The Optimal Migration Duration and Activity Choice after Re-migration

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Dustmann, Christian () (University College London, CEPR, London and IZA, Bonn)
Kirchkamp, Oliver (Mannheim University)

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If migrants return to their origin countries, two questions arise which are of immediate economic interest for both immigration and emigration country: What determines their optimal migration duration, and what are the activities migrants choose after a return. Little research has been devoted to these two issues. This paper utilises a unique survey data set which records activities of returned migrants. We first illustrate the activities of immigrants after returning. We show that more than half of the returning migrants are economically active after return, and most of them engage in entrepreneurial activities. We then develop a model, where migrants decide simultaneously about the optimal migration duration, and their after-return activities. Guided by this model, we specify and estimate an empirical model, where the after-return activity, and the optimal migration duration are simultaneously chosen.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 266.

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Keywords: Life cycle models; international migration; qualitative choice models;

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D9 - Microeconomics - - Intertemporal Choice and Growth
F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
C35 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models

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