Return Migration and Occupational Choice

By M. Piracha, Florin Vadean. Social Science Research Network, 2009

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This paper explores the impact of return migration on the Albanian economy by analysing the occupational choice of return migrants while explicitly differentiating between self-employment as either own account work or entrepreneurship. After taking into account the possible sample selection into return migration, we find that the own account workers have characteristics closer to non-participants in the labour market (i.e. lower education levels), while entrepreneurship is positively related to schooling, foreign language proficiency and savings accumulated abroad. Furthermore, compared to having not migrated, return migrants are significantly more likely not to participate in the labour market or to be entrepreneurs. However, after a one year re-integration period, the effect on non participation vanishes and that on entrepreneurship becomes stronger. As for non-migrants, the migration experience would have increased their probability to be entrepreneurs showing the positive impact of migration on job creating activities in Albania.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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In Management of Technology and Innovation

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2. M. Siegel
3. Hui Xu
4. S. Démurger
5. Katrin Marchand
6. Anis Omri
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8. Katrin Marchand

Citations in the corpus

• Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions (2017, background): “For instance, both Arif and Irfan (1997) and Piracha and Vadean (2010) find strong indication that return migrants are more likely to be self-employed in business in comparison to non-migrants in Pakistan and Albania, respectively.”
• Bringing It All Back Home – Return Migration and Fertility Choices (2015, background): “With respect to the flows of ideas towards the countries of origin, Spilimbergo (2009) shows student migration towards democratic countries promote democracy at home, while Batista and Vicente (2011) and Docquier, Lodigiani, Rapoport, and Schiff (2011) show that migration can improve the quality of ”
• Return migrants: The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China (2010, background): “We find that return migrants are more likely to be self-employed than non-migrants, and that both return savings and the frequency of job changes during migration increase the likelihood for return migrants to become self-employed.”
• Do return migrants transfer political norms to their origin country? Evidence from Mali (2014, background): “Piracha and Vadean (2010) also find that return migrants in Albania are more likely to be entrepreneurs.”