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Return International Migration and Geographical Inequality: The Case of Egypt

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 …
Publisher:
UNU-WIDER
Series:
WIDER Research Paper
Volume:
2004/07
Title:
Return International Migration and Geographical Inequality: The Case of Egypt
Authors:
Barry McCormick and Jackline Wahba
Publication date:
2004
ISSN Web:
1810-2611
ISBN Web:
9291905844
ISBN 13 Web:
9789291905843
Copyright holder:
© UNU-WIDER
Copyright year:
2004
Keywords:
return migration, remittances, developing countries, rural-urban inequality
JEL:
F22, J23, J24, O15, O53
Project:
Spatial Disparities in Human Development
Sponsor:
UNU-WIDER acknowledges the financial contributions to the research programme by the governments of Denmark (Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Finland (Ministry for Foreign Affairs), Norway (Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Sweden (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency-Sida) and the United Kingdom (Department for International Development).
Format:
online