This paper analyzes the impact of an exogenous change in household incomes in a migrant’s sending country on migration duration, the incidence of repeat migration and migrant selection. Higher incomes raise the opportunity cost of residing abroad, but also help facilitate a costly migration if households are borrowing constrained. To disentangle these mechanisms and to evaluate the effects of i...

Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has an impact on migrants’ return desires and actual returns across the globe. Border closures in face of lead to panic mobility those returning home. ensuing lockdowns economic difficulties restricted migrant workers’ access income protection, pushing them return. brought evident risks for regular healthcare, financial security, social forcing consider option too...

Savings, Asset Holdings, and Temporary Migration This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the homeand host country may also be related to future return plans. Thus, comparing savings and assets between ...