Occupational choice of return migrants

Piracha, Matloob

doi:10.15185/izawol.197

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“…The duration of stay of a migrant abroad can have a detrimental effect on their political capital. People who migrate do not often stay in touch with well-placed contacts and acquaintances in their home country while they are away (Piracha 2015). These connections are one of the key means of acquiring privileged information and possibly political favours.…”

Section: Control Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrant human and political capitals value in entrepreneur enterprise performance. A comparative study of four emerging markets

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This paper investigates the impact of human and political capitals of entrepreneurs on enterprise performance in four emerging nations.The rent generation potential of these capitals is a well established fact, however, much less is known concerning the contingent nature of their value creation prowess. In this work, we draw on institutional theory and dynamic managerial capabilities perspective to examine the interactive effect of country of origin economic developement level and the international experience of entrepreurs, on the capitals, with respect to a set of financial indicators. Employing a quantitative methodology, our findings reveal that the relationship between the capitals and enterprise performance are indeeed contingent with the capitals of home-grown entrepreneurs, rather than those of returnee migrant entrepreneurs, exhibiting a greater propensity to influence enterprise performance. We conclude with implications for theory and practice.

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Section: Control Variablesmentioning

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Migrant human and political capitals value in entrepreneur enterprise performance. A comparative study of four emerging markets

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“…A lower labor market participation of return migrants has also been found in Albania (Piracha and Vadean 2010) and in some South Asian countries (Bossavie and Wang 2021), but not in Senegal (Kveder and Flahaux 2013). A longer duration of stay at destination also appears to increase the likelihood of being unemployed (or staying out of the labor force) after return (Piracha 2015). The current scarcity of research on this question, combined with the descriptive nature of available studies, indicates that much more evidence is needed to generalize those findings and draw a causal link between return migration and labor supply.…”

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confidence: 88%

Impacts of Temporary Migration on Development in Origin Countries

Bossavie¹,

Özden²

2023

The World Bank Research Observer

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Temporary migration is widespread globally. While the literature has traditionally focused on the impacts of permanent migration on destination countries, evidence on the effects of temporary migration on origin countries has grown over the past decade. This paper highlights that the economic development impacts, especially on low- and middle-income origin countries, are complex, dynamic, context-specific, and multichanneled. The paper identifies five main pathways: (a) labor supply; (b) human capital; (c) financial capital and entrepreneurship; (d) aggregate welfare and poverty; and (e) institutions and social norms. Several factors shape these pathways and their eventual impacts. These include initial economic conditions at home, the scale and double selectivity of emigration and return migration, whether migration was planned to be temporary ex ante, and employment and human capital accumulation opportunities experienced by migrants while they are overseas. Meaningful policy interventions to increase the development impacts of temporary migration require proper analysis, which, in turn, depends on high-quality data on workers’ employment trajectories, as well as their decision processes on the timing of their migration and return. These are currently the biggest research challenges to overcome to study the development impacts of temporary migration.

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“…The most common careers in formal and informal are salary employment, self‐employment, entrepreneurship as well as non‐participation in labour market. Piracha (2015, p.3) writes “those who take up wage employment or self‐employment in the informal sector are biding their time until they are able to move to the formal sector”. Some stay out of formal employment for good.…”

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“…Literature detects a number of other returnee‐specific advantages such as earnings premium (Hazans, 2016; Iara, 2008; Martin & Radu, 2012; Piracha, 2015; Tverdostup & Masso, 2016). On the other hand, positive returns to migration may not always be the case.…”

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confidence: 99%

Back for business: The link between foreign experience and entrepreneurship in Latvia

Varpina

Krūmiņa

Fredheim

et al. 2023

International Migration

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Research shows that return migrants have a higher propensity to set up an entrepreneurial activity or be self‐employed compared to non‐migrants. We take a multidisciplinary approach and empirically study the case of Latvia as a migration donor country to learn how re‐migrants participate in entrepreneurship back at home. We are interested if return migrants can be seen as a vehicle for entrepreneurship development and if it is worth looking at them as agents of business growth and innovation. Not only we measure the fact of being entrepreneurial but also explore sources that contribute to the higher propensity, attitudes to creating own business venture, level of ambitions and population sentiment towards entrepreneurs. Based on a nationally representative adult population survey of 8000 observations, we find that early‐stage entrepreneurial activity, established business ownership as well as intrapreneurship for return migrants exceed that of the non‐migrant population. The self‐perceived capabilities to start business is higher for those who have lived abroad, and fear of failure is lower. Return migrants also have better business networks and higher growth and export ambitions. Latvian return migrant entrepreneurship is not necessity driven but rather motivated by opportunities. Migration experience, length of stay aboard and capital accumulated abroad are found to be significant predictors of probability to become entrepreneur when controlled for socioeconomic and personal factors.

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Occupational choice of return migrants

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

Migrant human and political capitals value in entrepreneur enterprise performance. A comparative study of four emerging markets

Migrant human and political capitals value in entrepreneur enterprise performance. A comparative study of four emerging markets

Impacts of Temporary Migration on Development in Origin Countries

Back for business: The link between foreign experience and entrepreneurship in Latvia

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