Self-Selection and the Performance of Return Migrants: The Case of Albania

University of Kent Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 0211

30 Pages Posted: 20 Mar 2003

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Augustin de Coulon

King's College, London; Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); University of London - Institute of Education

Matloob Piracha

University of Kent - Department of Economics; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Date Written: December 18, 2002

Abstract

In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the performance of non-migrants had they decided to migrate and return? Both the selection estimates and the semi-parametric approach allow us to conclude that the flows of return migrants are negatively selected. We find that, had they decided to migrate and come back, the non-migrants would have earned more than twice the wages of return migrants.

Keywords: migration, self-selection, Albania

JEL Classification: F22, J61

Suggested Citation

de Coulon, Augustin and Piracha, Matloob, Self-Selection and the Performance of Return Migrants: The Case of Albania (December 18, 2002). University of Kent Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 0211, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=375102 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.375102

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