The Impact of Labor Market Dynamics on the Return Migration of Immigrants

Bijwaard, Govert E.; Schluter, Christian; Wahba, Jackline

doi:10.1162/rest_a_00389

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“…In terms of the return literature, our paper is more closely related to the literature that explores the voluntary return of refugees and asylum-seekers (Black and Koser, 1999;Koser, 2001;Black et al, 2004;Black and Gent, 2006) -albeit differentiated by empirically testing the impact of post-return programs as opposed to discussing them more broadly -in comparison with the economics literature on return for example, which focuses, although not exclusively, upon the conditions under which migrants return home (see for example Stark, 1992;Dustmann, 1997;Bijwaard et al, 2014). The burgeoning economic literature on civil conflict predominantly concerns the causes and consequences of war (Blattman and Miguel, 2010).…”

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Does Shelter Assistance Reduce Poverty in Afghanistan?

2015

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Forced migration, often resulting from violent conflict, imposes large economic costs on both sending and receiving countries, on those agencies that coordinate humanitarian services and most importantly upon the forced migrants themselves. Programs encouraging the return of refugees are therefore potentially crucial interventions, which can result in all parties benefiting. In this paper, we assess the UNHCR post-return shelter assistance program in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2011, the country most affected by refugee movements, where no less than one-third of the population is a returnee. We are motivated by the fact that the resolution of lost housing and property is commonly understood as a key ingredient in sustainable return and reintegration. Given the infeasibility of randomizing shelter assistance to those repatriated, we implement a variety of matching techniques to insulate our results from selection biases. Adopting a multidimensional approach, our results show that shelter assistance reduces multidimensional poverty by around six percent. This reduction in poverty is driven by particular indicators of deprivation including dietary diversity, food security and heating, all of which are shown to fall by five to six percent depending on the matching specification. The former results are particularly encouraging in the context of Afghanistan given the prevalence of chronic malnutrition in the country.

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2015

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“…These results indicate that for these data of recent labour migrants to the Netherlands it is important to include frailties and to allow these frailties to be correlated. More details on the data and on other analyses using these data on return behaviour and labour market transitions can be found in Bijwaard (2010), Bijwaard (2009), and Bijwaard, Schluter, and Wahba (2014).…”

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“…In both cases, return behaviour is intrinsically related to the timing of labour market changes of the individual migrant. Migrants who become unemployed are more prone to leave, but when they find a new job again they are more prone to stay, see Bijwaard, Schluter, and Wahba (2014). Migrants who are employed in high paying jobs have a lower probability of becoming unemployed and can accumulate more savings while working.…”

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Multistate event history analysis with frailty

Bijwaard¹

2014

DemRes

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“…The benefits may especially be concentrated in the labor market outcomes of return migrants (Bijwaard et al (2013)). A multi-topic survey should cover several important issues in order to study the implications of return migration.…”

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Informing migration policies: a data primer

Carletto¹,

Larrison²,

Özden³

2014

International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.IZA Discussion Paper No. 8745 December 2014 ABSTRACT Informing Migration Policies: A Data PrimerResearchers in many fields, such as demography, economics, and sociology, have established various data collection methodologies and principles to answer a range of academic and policy questions on migration. Although the progress has been impressive, some basic challenges remain. This paper addresses some basic, yet fundamental, questions on identification of international migrants and how their various demographic, personal, and human capital characteristics are captured via different data sources. The critical issues are the construction of proper sampling frames in censuses, registers, and surveys and the design of questionnaires in household, labor market, and other relevant surveys. The paper discusses how these data sources can be used to answer policy questions in areas such as labor markets, education, or poverty. The focus is on how some of the existing shortcomings in availability, quality, and relevance of migration data can be overcome via improvements in data collection methods.JEL Classification: F22, J61, O15

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The Impact of Labor Market Dynamics on the Return Migration of Immigrants

Cited by 81 publications

References 15 publications

Does Shelter Assistance Reduce Poverty in Afghanistan?

Does Shelter Assistance Reduce Poverty in Afghanistan?

Multistate event history analysis with frailty

Informing migration policies: a data primer

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