Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84652 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2004/07
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper explores entrepreneurship amongst return migrants, how their business locations and characteristics differ from other businesses, and the implications for rural-urban inequality. First, we examine, amongst returnees, the determinants of investment in a project/enterprise. Second, we study the impact of return migration on the characteristics and nature of non-farm small enterprises using a sample of return migrants and non-migrant owners of enterprises. Our data indicate that although the share of return migrants originating in urban areas is almost equal to those from rural areas, and that migrants tend to return to their origin region, urban areas benefit more than rural areas from international savings. The empirical evidence suggests that ?
Subjects: 
return migration
remittances
developing countries
rural-urban inequality
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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