This paper contributes to a small but rapidly growing literature concerned with the potentially
substantial implications of international migration for economic development in LDCs. We
use a sample of return Moroccan migrants in 2003-04 collected by the High Commission of
Planning to explore the pattern of return migration and entrepreneurial activities of return
migrants. We examine the determinants of entrepreneurial behavior among return migrants in
Morocco, controlling for the potential endogeneity of migration duration. Our findings
suggest that individual characteristics and conditions before migration matter for
entrepreneurship. We explore further the entrepreneurial behavior upon return by considering
the potential endogenous impact of having invested overseas. We find that overseas
migration experience plays a significant role beyond the role played by savings and captured
by migration duration.