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Kerstin Enflo. Foto.

Kerstin Enflo

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Kerstin Enflo. Foto.

Home, Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration

Författare

  • Olof Ejermo
  • Kerstin Enflo
  • Björn Eriksson
  • Erik Prawitz

Summary, in English

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.

Avdelning/ar

  • Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

Publiceringsår

2022-11-14

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Discussion Paper series

Issue

DP17668

Dokumenttyp

Working paper

Ämne

  • Economic History

Nyckelord

  • N13
  • F22
  • O15
  • J24
  • J62

Status

Published