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Home, Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration
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- Ejermo, Olof (author)
- Stockholm School of Economics,Lund University,Lunds universitet,Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen,Ekonomihögskolan,Department of Economic History,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM,Ratio Institute
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- Enflo, Kerstin (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Tillväxt, teknologisk förändring och ojämlikhet,Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen,Ekonomihögskolan,Growth, technological change, and inequality,Department of Economic History,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM,Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
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- Eriksson, Björn (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen,Ekonomihögskolan,Department of Economic History,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM
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- Prawitz, Erik (author)
- Linnaeus University,Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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- 2022
- English 83 s.
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Series: Lund Papers in Economic History
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Series: Discussion Paper series
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Abstract
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- Studying migrants from Sweden to the United States, we provide new evidence on return migration during the Age of Mass Migration. Focusing on a sample of migrants and stayers observed in childhood, we document limited effects on income and occupational upgrading, but large effects on wealth. Male returnees held about twice as much wealth as stayers and about 40 percent more than staying brothers. These effects were likely driven by accumulated savings overseas, rather than inheritance or an income premium back home. For female returnees, wealth effects are of similar magnitude, but appear to be realized primarily through marriage.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Ekonomisk historia (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economic History (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- emigration
- returnees
- selection
- return location
- occupational and social upgrading
- income and wealth
- N13
- F22
- O15
- J24
- J62
Publication and Content Type
- ovr (subject category)
- vet (subject category)
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