TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Chabé-Ferret, Bastien
AU  - Machado, Joël
AU  - Wahba, Jackline
        TI  - Return Plans and Migrants' Behavior
        PY  - 2016/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10111
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10111
        AB  - This paper studies how return migration intentions affect immigrants' behavior. Using a unique French data set, we analyze the relationship between return plans and several immigrants' behavior in the host and origin countries addressing the potential endogeneity between return plans and different investment decisions. We also investigate the potential trade-off and complementarities between various immigrants' investment behaviors.
We find that temporary migrants are more likely to remit and invest in the country of origin, but less likely to invest in the host country. Moreover, our results show that there is no trade-off between immigrants' investment in the home and in the host country. In turn, we find substantial heterogeneity in behavior across migrants of different origins.
        KW  - temporary migration
KW  - return intention
KW  - remittances
        ER  -