TY - JOUR
T1 - The probability of return migration, migrants' work effort, and migrants' performance
AU - Galor, Oded
AU - Stark, Oded
N1 - Funding Information:
*An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Royal Economic Society and the Association of University Teachers of Economics, Bristol, April 1989. We thank anonymous referees for their thoughtful comments. The second author acknowledges with gratitude the support of the Welfare and Human Resources Division, Population and Human Resources Department, The World Bank.
PY - 1991/4
Y1 - 1991/4
N2 - This paper demonstrates that differences in earnings between migrants and the native population may reflect differences in incentives rather than differences in characteristics. The analysis indicates that in the presence of a positive probability of return migration, migrants' work effort is higher than that of comparable native-born workers. This differential may explain why, even if all workers are perfectly homogeneous in skills, migrants often outperform the native-born workers in the receiving economy.
AB - This paper demonstrates that differences in earnings between migrants and the native population may reflect differences in incentives rather than differences in characteristics. The analysis indicates that in the presence of a positive probability of return migration, migrants' work effort is higher than that of comparable native-born workers. This differential may explain why, even if all workers are perfectly homogeneous in skills, migrants often outperform the native-born workers in the receiving economy.
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U2 - 10.1016/0304-3878(91)90058-4
DO - 10.1016/0304-3878(91)90058-4
M3 - מאמר
AN - SCOPUS:0025924460
VL - 35
SP - 399
EP - 405
JO - Journal of Development Economics
JF - Journal of Development Economics
SN - 0304-3878
IS - 2
ER -