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'Va-et-vient'?

Francois-Charles Wolff and Augustin de Coulon


Nearly a third of immigrants in Western Europe intend to spend part of the year in their host country and the rest back home when they retire. That at least is the implication of analysis of a representative sample of more than 6,000 immigrants currently living in France, a significant proportion of whom plan to pursue a previously undocumented strategy called 'va-et-vient' when they reach retirement age.


December 2005     Paper Number CEPCP191

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