Return Migration and Economic Outcomes in the Conflict Context

TLDR: In this paper, the authors explore differences in economic outcomes between return migrant households and non-migrant households using panel data from Burundi, a country which experienced large-scale conflict-led emigration and massive post-war refugee return.

About: This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 2017-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 27 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Capital accumulation.

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Figure 5 – Year of return of returnees in the sample

Table 4 – Relationship between proximity and internal displacement (i.e. within Burundi).

Figure 1 – Burundi and vicinity

Table 8 – Impact of being a returnee on economic activities.

Figure 2 – Number of refugees in Tanzania per province of origin [brackets] and as a share of the province’s 1990 population (parenthesis).

Table 3 – Descriptive statistics of the instrument and first stage results.

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In this paper the authors explore differences in economic outcomes between return migrant households and non-migrant households using panel data from Burundi, a country which experienced large scale conflict-led emigration and massive post-war refugee return. Their search for channels suggests that returnees are more likely to engage in economic activities that are generally correlated with lower levels of livestock. One possible explanation for this dynamic relates to the legal restrictions on economic activities faced by returnees while in displacement, which resulted in high levels of inactivity abroad and a potential loss/deterioration of skills.