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Who Leaves? The Outmigration of the Foreign-Born
Abstract
This paper analyzes the return migration of foreign-born persons in the United States.We argue that return migration may have been planned as part of an optimal life cycle residential location sequence.Return migration also occurs because immigrants based their initial migration decision on erroneous information about opportunities in the United States.The study uses the 1980 Census and administrative data from the immigration and Naturalization Service.Immigrants tend to return to wealthy countries which are not too far from the United States.Moreover, return migration accentuates the type of selection characterizing the immigrant population left in the United States.
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“As a consequence of return migration, the skill composition in the destination country becomes even more biased in favour of highly skilled persons (Borjas & Bratsberg, 1996).”
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“Moreover, there is empirical evidence that when highly skilled persons emigrate, it is generally the least skilled of them that eventually return to their country of origin.”
From The South African brain drain: An empirical assessment (2017) · cites this paper as Borjas & Bratsberg, 1996
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Kaplan, D., & Höppli, T. (2017) · Development Southern Africa · doi:10.1080/0376835x.2017.1351870 · Cited by 26
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- Authors
- Borjas, G. J., & Bratsberg, B.
- Affiliations
- Kansas State University (US)
- Venue
- The Review of Economics and Statistics
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1996-02
- Volume
- 78
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 165
- ISSN
- 0034-6535 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3095086714
- Cited by
- 797
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 30.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Review of Economics and Statistics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social Sciences › Demography › Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Keywords
- return migration, emigration, foreign-born population, immigrant selection, migration decisions, information errors, migration to the United States
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