Using a unique database constructed through the merging of administrative records
from Sweden and Finland, we provide the first detailed examination of
differential return migration risks by people's mother tongue within a given
nationality. We analyze whether the divergence in return migration risk between
Swedish-speaking and Finnish-speaking Finns in Sweden relates to host country
earnings, considering that the former group are in parity with native Swedes.
Host country earnings and other background variables are found to explain only a
modest part of the difference in return migration risk. Variation in the return
migration risk of labor migrants is consequently not solely a result of earnings
differentials.
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