The impact of divorce on return-Mmgration of family migrants

Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family migrants main migration motive is to join their future spouse. Thus, when their relation breaks down this influences their return decision. Using administrative panel data on the entire population of recent family immigrants to The Netherlands, we estimate the effect of a divorce on the hazard of leaving The Netherlands using the timing-of-events model. The model allows for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration and the divorce processes. The family migrants are... Mehr ...