Return Migrants and the Wage Premium : Does the Legal Status of Migrants Matter?
This paper examines the impact of the legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return to the home country. Using unique data from the Arab Republic of Egypt, which allows distinguishing between return migrants according to whether thei...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/886041629726600901/Return-Migrants-and-the-Wage-Premium-Does-the-Legal-Status-of-Migrants-Matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36195 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the impact of the
legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return
to the home country. Using unique data from the Arab
Republic of Egypt, which allows distinguishing between
return migrants according to whether their international
migration was documented or undocumented, the paper examines
the impact of illegal status on wages upon return. Relying
on a conditional mixed process model, which takes into
account the selection into emigration, return, and the legal
status of temporary migration, the analysis finds that, upon
return, undocumented migrants experience a wage penalty
compared with documented migrants, as well as relative to
non-migrants. The results are the first to show the impact
of undocumented migration on the migrant upon return to the
country of origin. |
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