Lecture on “Return Migration”

Topic of the Lecture

This lecture will provide an overview of the economic literature on return migration. It will summarise the theoretical determinants of return migration and the empirical evidence on the drivers of return migration. It will then discuss the main implications of return migration such as the evidence on the importance of return migration in entrepreneurship, human capital accumulation, diffusion of knowledge and transfer of norms to country of origin. It will also discuss the empirical challenges of measuring the determinants and consequences of return migration.

Speaker

Jackline Wahba, University of Southampton

Prof. Wahba is a Professor of Economics, and an applied labour economist with interests in the economics of international migration and refugees. In 2020, she was awarded an OBE for services to Economic Policy. She was a member of the UK Migration Advisory Committee (2012-2021).

More information about Prof. Wahba

Practical information

• Registration: free but mandatory here
• Date: Thursday 17 October; 13:00 – 16:00: lecture
• Venue: room D17, University of Luxembourg, 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, L-1359 Luxembourg 
• Online access: a Webex link will be shared with registered participants before the event
• Contact: across@uni.lu

An Event supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) (PRIDE19/14302992) and (RESCOM/2024/LE/18786706)