Skill Diffusion by Temporary Migration? Returns from Western European Working Experience in the EU Accession Countries

Iara, Anna

doi:10.4337/9781781000601.00014

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“…However, they also observe a premium stemming from the migration experience on the labour market, suggesting that returnees have acquired some skills that make them more productive in the home country labour market. Iara (2006) finds that young male returnees from Western Europe receive a substantial wage premium in the labour markets in Central and Eastern Europe. However, her analysis shows the existence of a positive self-selection of both out-migrants and returnees.…”

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“…In spite of the intensive return waves of migrants – in particular from Central and Eastern Europe – there exists limited evidence on the economic implications of such labour movement back to source countries (see De Coulon and Piracha, 2005; Iara, 2006; Fihel and Grabowska-Lusińska, 2014; Grabowska, 2016; Martin and Radu, 2012). Moreover, the knowledge on whether and under which circumstances the returnees are able to productively exploit the skills acquired during the migration spell is generally scarce in the migration studies literature.…”

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Migration and development at home: Bitter or sweet return? Evidence from Poland

Brzozowski

Coniglio

2016

European Urban and Regional Studies

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The existing economic literature focuses on the benefits that return migrants offer to their home country in terms of entrepreneurship and human and financial capital accumulation. However, return migration can have modest or even some detrimental effects if the migration experience was unsuccessful and/or if the migrant fails to re-integrate into the home country’s economy. In our paper, we empirically show which factors – both individual characteristics and features related to the migration experience – influence the likelihood of a sub-optimal employment of returnees’ human capital employing an original dataset on a representative sample of return migrants in Silesia (Poland)

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Section: Bitter Return? a Conceptual Discussionmentioning

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Migration and development at home: Bitter or sweet return? Evidence from Poland

Brzozowski

Coniglio

2016

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…Literature detects a number of other returnee‐specific advantages such as earnings premium (Hazans, 2016; Iara, 2008; Martin & Radu, 2012; Piracha, 2015; Tverdostup & Masso, 2016). On the other hand, positive returns to migration may not always be the case.…”

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Back for business: The link between foreign experience and entrepreneurship in Latvia

Varpina

Krūmiņa

Fredheim

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International Migration

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Research shows that return migrants have a higher propensity to set up an entrepreneurial activity or be self‐employed compared to non‐migrants. We take a multidisciplinary approach and empirically study the case of Latvia as a migration donor country to learn how re‐migrants participate in entrepreneurship back at home. We are interested if return migrants can be seen as a vehicle for entrepreneurship development and if it is worth looking at them as agents of business growth and innovation. Not only we measure the fact of being entrepreneurial but also explore sources that contribute to the higher propensity, attitudes to creating own business venture, level of ambitions and population sentiment towards entrepreneurs. Based on a nationally representative adult population survey of 8000 observations, we find that early‐stage entrepreneurial activity, established business ownership as well as intrapreneurship for return migrants exceed that of the non‐migrant population. The self‐perceived capabilities to start business is higher for those who have lived abroad, and fear of failure is lower. Return migrants also have better business networks and higher growth and export ambitions. Latvian return migrant entrepreneurship is not necessity driven but rather motivated by opportunities. Migration experience, length of stay aboard and capital accumulated abroad are found to be significant predictors of probability to become entrepreneur when controlled for socioeconomic and personal factors.

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“…Allow us to highlight two of them here – Ireland and Mexico – both linked mostly to return migration from the USA. First, we know that returnees to both Ireland (Barrett & O’Connell, 2001; Barrett & Goggin, 2010; Iara, 2008) and Mexico (Reinhold & Thom, 2009) have higher earnings after accumulating work experience abroad than at home during the same period. Second, human capital accumulation might be also a trigger to return and perform better in the labor market (Dustmann, Fadlon, & Weiss, 2010).…”

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Migration informal human capital of returnees to Central Europe: a new rescource for organisations

Grabowska

Jastrzebowska

2023

CEMJ

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PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the interplay between international migration, soft skills and job and life satisfaction after returns.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses the dataset of Human Capital in Poland 2010–2014 representative surveys with 4040 return migrants, who worked temporarily abroad and returned to an origin in comparison with almost 70,000 stayers, who never worked abroad. In this study, Poland is treated as a strategic research site for the labor migration processes, which happened after the biggest European Union enlargement in 2004.FindingsThis study discovered that working abroad had a positive relation with cognitive, intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies, as well as job and life satisfaction. However, the relations differ depending on the key destination country.Practical implicationsThis study discusses the implications for future research and practice, offering recommendations to organizations on how to embed employees with these resources in companies and how to support return migrants and their potential employers with the use of migratory informal human capital in personnel management and counseling.Originality/valueThis paper brings quantitative arguments about the hidden impacts of international migration on human capital by uniquely comparing the migrant population with the non-migrant population.

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Skill Diffusion by Temporary Migration? Returns from Western European Working Experience in the EU Accession Countries

Cited by 8 publications

References 11 publications

Migration and development at home: Bitter or sweet return? Evidence from Poland

Migration and development at home: Bitter or sweet return? Evidence from Poland

Back for business: The link between foreign experience and entrepreneurship in Latvia

Migration informal human capital of returnees to Central Europe: a new rescource for organisations

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