TY  - JOUR
AU  - Borjas,George J.
AU  - Bratsberg,Bernt
TI  - Who Leaves? The Outmigration of the Foreign-Born
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4913
PY  - 1994
Y2  - November 1994
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4913
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4913.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
George J. Borjas
Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-1393
Fax: 617/495-9532
E-Mail: gborjas@harvard.edu
AB  - This paper analyzes the return migration of foreign-born persons in the United States.  We argue that return migration may have been planned as part of an optimal life cycle residential location sequence.  Return migration also occurs because immigrants based their initial migration decision on erroneous information about opportunities in the United States.  The study uses the 1980 Census and administrative data from the Immigration and Naturalization Service.  Immigrants tend to return to wealthy countries which are not too far from the United States.  Moreover, return migration accentuates the type of selection characterizing the immigrant population left in the United States.
ER  -