TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gielen, Anne C.
AU  - Webbink, Dinand
        TI  - Unexpected Colonial Returns: Self-Selection and Economic Integration of Migrants over Multiple Generations
        PY  - 2023/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16065
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16065
        AB  - A ban on migration from Suriname, a former Dutch colony, to the Netherlands induced a mass migration and changed the selection of migrants. We exploit this historical episode to study the relationship between the self-selection of migrants and their long-term economic integration over three generations. 'Beat-the-ban' migrants, those arriving just before the ban, are negatively selected compared to economic migrants arriving earlier. This difference in selection is reflected in the outcomes of the first generation. However, the inequality in outcomes between differently selected migrants is not persistent. The offspring of negatively selected migrants has a faster catch-up to natives which can be explained by inequities in the country of origin.
        KW  - mass migration
KW  - economic integration
KW  - intergenerational mobility
KW  - migrant selection
        ER  -