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Govert E. Bijwaard

Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), the Netherlands, and IZA, Germany

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Author

Current position

Senior Researcher, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

Research interest

Migration dynamics, impact of early life experiences on health and mortality, and applications of duration analysis

Website

https://nidi.nl/en/employees/govert-bijwaard/

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Senior Researcher SEOR (2001–2004), Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and Researcher at NYFER (1998–2001), Breukelen, the Netherlands

Past positions

Postdoc at Erasmus University Rotterdam (2004–2008)

Qualifications

PhD, Free University of Amsterdam, 2001

Selected publications

  • “Pathways from education to mortality, mediated through income.” Health Economics 34 (2025): 18-44 (with K.J. Barclay).

  • “Return versus Onward Migration: Go Back or Move on?” Review of Income and Wealth 69:3 (2023): 640-667 (with J. Wahba).

  • “Educational differences in mortality and hospitalization for Cardiovascular diseases.” Journal of Health Economics (2022): 102565

  • “Immigrants wage growth and selective out-migration.” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 81 (2019): 1065-1094 (with J. Wahba).

  • “An IPW estimator for mediation effects in hazard models: with an application to schooling, cognitive ability and mortality.” Empirical Economics 57 (2019): 129-175 (with A. M. Jones).

article(s)

  • Income of immigrants and their return

    Both low- and high-income immigrants stay for a relatively short time

    Govert E. Bijwaard, April 2015
    The majority of immigrants stay only temporarily in the host country. When many migrations are temporary, it is important to know who leaves and who stays, and why. The key questions for the host country are whether immigrants are net contributors to the welfare system and whether migrants assimilate quickly. The key questions for the home country are whether migrants return and who returns. The host country gains when unsuccessful migrants leave, while the home country may gain when successful migrants leave. Empirical evidence reveals that both low-income-earning and high-income-earning migrants leave the host country quite soon.
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