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Return Migration and Occupational Change
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Return migrants exhibit a high tendency for self‐employment over waged employment. Using cross‐ sectional data from Pakistan, the paper explores the determinants of this choice. Retirement from the domestic labor market is not a reason for opting for self‐employment. The preference for non‐farm self‐employment is a two‐period process of self‐selection. Migrants who expect to switch occupation to non‐farm self‐employment upon return save more from high transitory overseas income than do their counterparts. Upon return, savings become a significant factor in the choice of self‐employment over waged employment. International migration and return have little influence on the choice of farm self‐employment.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ilahi, N.
- Venue
- Review of Development Economics
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1999-06
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 170-186
- ISSN
- 1363-6669 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9361
- OpenAlex
- W2095353759
- Cited by
- 211
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 8.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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