Return Plans and Migrants' Behavior
(2016) , 34 pages
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- Abstract
- This paper studies how return migration intentions affect immigrants' behavior. Using a unique French data set, we analyze the relationship between return plans and several immigrants' behaviors in the host and origin countries addressing the potential endogeneity between return plans and different investment decisions. We also investigate the potential trade-off and complementarities between various immigrants' investment behaviors. We find that temporary migrants are more likely to remit and invest in the country of origin, but less likely to invest in the host country. Moreover, our results show that there is no trade-off between immigrants' investment in the home and in the host country. In turn, we find substantial heterogeneity in behavior across migrants of different origins.
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University of Luxembourg CREA University of Southampton Economics Division
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Chabé-Ferret, B., Machado, J., & Wahba, J. (2016). Return Plans and Migrants’ Behavior (IRES Discussion Papers 2016-16). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/184797