Migration Decisions

What drives people to migrate, stay, or return? Drawing on large-scale administrative and survey data, our research provides causal insights into how people make migration choices across different regions and contexts.

MENA

Until safety concerns in Syria are addressed, conditions in Lebanon have little effect on the return intentions of Syrian refugees.

Publication: external page The Dynamics of Refugee Return: Syrian Refugees and Their Migration Intentions

Resources: external page Research Brief

Media Coverage: Download The Economist (PDF, 1.5 MB), external page The Washington Post

Europe

Government data provide little evidence that immigrants engage in ‘welfare migration’ in Switzerland.

Publication: external page Do Immigrants Move to Welfare? Subnational Evidence from Switzerland

Resources: Download Research Brief (PDF, 198 KB)

Media Coverage: external page Blick (German), external page Tribune de Genève (French)