Abstract: BACKGROUND: A return migration later in life can be seen as a coping strategy to deal with care needs and other difficulties. Understanding these return migrations requires a comprehensive approach that takes previous migrant trajectories into account. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to investigate how long-term migrant trajectories, other relevant life course factors, and birth cohort impacted the risk of return migration later in life in the period 1900–1994. METHODS: Using longitudinal data from the Historical Sample of the Netherlands, we comb...
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Demographic economics