Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Bijwaard, G.E.
Author-Name-Last: Bijwaard
Author-Name-First: Govert
Author-Person: pbi2
Title: Migration dynamics of immigrants: who leaves, who returns and how quick?
Abstract: In this paper we analyze the demographic factors that influence the return and  repeated migration of immigrants. Using longitudinal data from Statistics  Netherlands we track migration histories of recent immigrants to The  Netherlands and analyze which migrants will stay in the country, which  migrants are more prone to leave and how quick they leave. In order to  identify these migrants we apply a mover-stayer duration model on the time  spent in the country. We also analyze the return from abroad to The  Netherlands of these migrants. Results  disclose differences among migrants by  migration motive and by country of origin and lend support to our analytical  framework. Combining the model for departure from the country and the model  for returning to the country provides the long-run stay probability of a  specific migrant. It also yields a framework for simulating the life-cycle  migration dynamics. The major findings are: (1) labor migrants and students  are more prone to leave and migrants who come for family reasons remain in the  country more often, (2) migrants from the `guestworker' countries, Turkey and  Morocco, will stay in the country more often than migrants from Western countries.
Creation-Date: 2005-12-07
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/7148/ei2005-53.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureir
Number: EI 2005-53
Classification-JEL: C41, F22, J10
Keywords: migration dynamics, mover-stayer model, return migration
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureir:7148