Emigration intentions in a post-conflict environment: evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

The probability of return conditional on migration duration: evidence from Kosovo

“…Similar to Kotorri (2015) and Kotorri et al (2013) and in line with empirical findings in Efendic (2016) about the importance of political factors in shaping migration behaviour, as well as consistent with theoretical expectations, results indicate that migrant households that have emigrated during the war have a higher hazard of return. This finding supports the relevance of the war effect on migration behaviour among Kosovan households.…”

“…Early studies, modelled emigration and return as one decision within the optimal lifecycle approach focussing exclusively on its determinants (Borjas and Bratsberg 1996;Kotorri 2010;Efendic 2016). One of the limitations of this framework is that it ignores the relevance of time.…”

Facing Fear and Responding with Courage: Understanding How Fear Constitutes the “Emotional Citizenship” of Voluntary Returnees to Bosnia and Herzegovina

“…Political uncertainty is a matter of daily life in BiH, most of which is rooted in the reality of institutionalised ethnic divisions, but also aided by consistent national and international media efforts 16 to keep alive an overall sense of political unpredictability representative of the generally perceived "Balkan powder keg" and the specificity of fragile peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In a study on emigration intentions in BiH, Efendić (2016) finds that, contrary to conventional expectations, high unemployment and low economic growth, although important, are not the most significant drivers of emigration from BiH. According to this study, the differences in emigration intentions between the returnee and the domicile population are not statistically significant.…”

Migration and intention to return: entrepreneurial intentions of the diaspora in post-conflict economies

“…Flows of migration have become an increasing focus of economic research (Dustmann, 2003;Efendic, 2016;Qin, Wright and Gao, 2017). Extant research on return migration provides mixed results, from the positive impact of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs connecting their homeland to California and the impact of return to rural China, to the less positive and mixed results in Europe, for example in Albania and Southern Italy (Hausmann and Nedelkoska, 2018).…”

“…In this study we focus on diaspora entrepreneurs returning to post-conflict economies, which is a currently under-researched context with the return migration literature. Such countries experience significant migration due to war, as well as ongoing economic and demographic challenges post the cessation of violence (Nielsen and Riddle, 2010;Efendic, 2016). This often leaves them with a large diaspora, defined by the dispersion of ethnic and national groups across international borders and who often maintain a relationship to their home country (Nielsen and Riddle, 2010;Riddle and Brinkerhoff, 2011).…”