Return and labour status at home: evidence from returnees in Albania

Abstract

This paper looks at three issues related to return migration in Albania. First, do returnees transfer human and/or financial capital upon return? Second, what determines their post‐return position in the Albanian labour market? And third, is there any developmental impact of return migration? The analysis utilizes a database attained from a survey of returnees, conducted by European Training Foundation in Albania in 2006 ETF (European Training Foundation). 2006. Labor market review of Albania, Torino: ETF. [Google Scholar]. Our findings suggest that Albanian returnees do transfer financial capital and to a lesser extent human capital upon return. They are investing back home but mostly after completion of a process of accumulation of money and skills. Our findings, however, also combined with the existing empirical evidence, do not point to the existence of any obvious link between return migration and the country's economic development up to now.