The probability of return migration, migrants' work effort, and migrants' performance
Galor, O.; Stark, O.
Journal of Development Economics 35(2): 399-405
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0304-3878 PMID: 12283938 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3878(91)90058-4Document Number: 350595
"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."