Abstract
Abstract Abstract This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have experienced had they never migrated by using the wage structure of stayers. We find evidence that the selection patterns in observable skills change over time from positive selection in 1990 toward negative selection in 2010. Additionally, we observe that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. JEL Codes F22, J01, J61, O54
Highlights
International migration is not always a permanent decision
Following Reinhold and Thom (2012), we find suggestive evidence that this wage premium is in part due to the migration experience and not to positive selection in unobserved ability among return migrants
In this article, we analyzed the self-selection patterns of return migrants in Mexico using the censuses for the years 1990, 2000 and 2010
Summary
International migration is not always a permanent decision. Some migrants return to their countries of origin after a period in the country of destination. Return migrants may bring skills or capital to the home economy and thereby contribute to the positive effects of migration in the source countries. Mexico has become the largest source of immigrants in the United States. Mexican immigrants accounted for 31.3 percent of the new arrivals in the 1990s (Chiquiar and Hanson, 2005). The 2010 Mexican census shows that of the 994,869 individuals who left their country to live in the United States from 2005 to 2010, 307,783 returned to Mexico by 2010. 30.9 percent of the migrants returned home.. We investigate the self-selection patterns among the return migrants in Mexico 30.9 percent of the migrants returned home. In this article, we investigate the self-selection patterns among the return migrants in Mexico
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