TY - JOUR
T1 - To the New World and Back Again
T2 - Return Migrants in the Age of Mass Migration
AU - Abramitzky, Ran
AU - Boustan, Leah
AU - Eriksson, Katherine
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Orley Ashenfelter and Alex Mas for the invitation to present this paper at Henry Farber’s Festschrift at Princeton University in April 2016. We appreciate helpful comments from Dylan Connor, Dora Costa, Walker Hanlon, Santiago Perez, Tom Zohar, and numerous participants at the Festschrift conference (not least of which, Hank himself!).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2017.
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - The authors compile large data sets from Norwegian and US historical censuses to study return migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1913). Norwegian immigrants who returned to Norway held lower-paid occupations than did Norwegian immigrants who stayed in the United States, both before and after their first transatlantic migration, suggesting they were negatively selected from the migrant pool. Upon returning to Norway, return migrants held higher-paid occupations relative to Norwegians who never moved, despite hailing from poorer backgrounds. These patterns suggest that despite being negatively selected, return migrants had been able to accumulate savings and could improve their economic circumstances once they returned home.
AB - The authors compile large data sets from Norwegian and US historical censuses to study return migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1913). Norwegian immigrants who returned to Norway held lower-paid occupations than did Norwegian immigrants who stayed in the United States, both before and after their first transatlantic migration, suggesting they were negatively selected from the migrant pool. Upon returning to Norway, return migrants held higher-paid occupations relative to Norwegians who never moved, despite hailing from poorer backgrounds. These patterns suggest that despite being negatively selected, return migrants had been able to accumulate savings and could improve their economic circumstances once they returned home.
KW - employment effects of migration/immigration
KW - immigrants
KW - immigration
KW - immigration and labor markets
KW - migration
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U2 - 10.1177/0019793917726981
DO - 10.1177/0019793917726981
M3 - Article
C2 - 32968324
AN - SCOPUS:85042936097
SN - 0019-7939
VL - 72
SP - 300
EP - 322
JO - Industrial and Labor Relations Review
JF - Industrial and Labor Relations Review
IS - 2
ER -