This article studies the effect of return initiatives in rural regions of Germany on interregional return migration. The initiatives aim to increase return migration by, amongst other things, providing information on local employment opportunities and personal support to workers interested in returning to find a job in the former rural region of residence. Analysing administrative data on individual labour market trajectories through survival analysis and difference-in-differences estimation, we find that return initiatives, on average, promote interregional return migration. Among the considered workers, particularly those in the middle and at the top of the wage distribution are more likely to return.

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欢迎回来！ “返乡倡议”对农村地区返乡移民的影响


本文研究了德国农村地区的回返举措对区域间回返移民的影响。这些举措旨在通过向有兴趣返回原农村地区寻找工作的工人提供有关当地就业机会的信息和个人支持等方式增加返乡移民。通过生存分析和双重差异估计来分析个人劳动力市场轨迹的行政数据，我们发现，平均而言，回返举措会促进区域间回返移民。在考虑的工人中，特别是那些处于工资分布中层和顶层的工人更有可能返回。