Jaime Lara Lara, J. A. Elizondo Salazar, Adrián Frausto Segovia, Tania Lizbeth López Cano, Héctor Javier Quiroga Suárez
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Abstract
International migrants return to their home countries in high proportions. This research analyzes the relationship between return migration and entrepreneurship in the case of Mexico. Using past community migration as an instrument, we find that return migrants become entrepreneurs more often than non-migrants, but only in recent periods. Return migrants also tend to accumulate more assets than non-migrants. However, the businesses owned by return migrants tend to have fewer than four employees, and thus do not have much potential for job creation. Policy supporting bigger enterprises is recommended.
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The Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad is an academic and open access journal, published each semester, that belongs to the Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo y Sociedad (CEDE) of the School of Economics at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). The journal seeks to disseminate the investigations and academic projects develop at Universities and Research Centers, at a national and international level; it is addressed to economists and researchers of related fields. The special editions are selected aiming to choose topics highly relevant to the area of Economy. The call for papers is permanently open.