TY - JOUR
T1 - Welcome home in a crisis
T2 - Effects of return migration on the non-migrants’ wages and employment
AU - Hausmann, Ricardo
AU - Nedelkoska, Ljubica
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - The recent economic depression in Greece hit the population of Albanian migrants in Greece particularly hard, spurring a wave of return migration that increased the Albanian labor force by 5% in less than four years, between 2011 and 2014. We study how this return migration affected the employment chances and earnings of Albanians who never migrated. We find positive effects on the wages of low-skilled non-migrants and overall positive effects on employment. The gains partially offset the sharp drop in remittances in the observed period. An important part of the employment gains are concentrated in the agricultural sector, where most return migrants engage in self-employment and entrepreneurship. Businesses run by return migrants seem to pull Albanians from non-participation, unemployment and subsistence agriculture into commercial agriculture.
AB - The recent economic depression in Greece hit the population of Albanian migrants in Greece particularly hard, spurring a wave of return migration that increased the Albanian labor force by 5% in less than four years, between 2011 and 2014. We study how this return migration affected the employment chances and earnings of Albanians who never migrated. We find positive effects on the wages of low-skilled non-migrants and overall positive effects on employment. The gains partially offset the sharp drop in remittances in the observed period. An important part of the employment gains are concentrated in the agricultural sector, where most return migrants engage in self-employment and entrepreneurship. Businesses run by return migrants seem to pull Albanians from non-participation, unemployment and subsistence agriculture into commercial agriculture.
KW - Return migration
KW - Wages and employment of non-migrants
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85033555353&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.10.003
DO - 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.10.003
M3 - Article
SN - 0014-2921
VL - 101
SP - 101
EP - 132
JO - European Economic Review
JF - European Economic Review
ER -