This is according to new research by the Central Planning Bureau (CPB), which looked at how long labor migrants will stay in the Netherlands and what the reasons are to leave. The CPB sees a clear distinction in income: the more someone earns who came here for his work, the longer it stays.
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For example, the research shows that people with an income of more than 6000 euros per month stay in the Netherlands for the most part for more than five years. Then 87 percent of that group is still there.
With lower incomes this is less, but the research also shows that these labor migrants also stick to the most part in the Netherlands. Even from the group that catches between 1000 and 2000 euros per month, 64 percent are still present in the Netherlands after five years. With 2000 to 3000 euros in monthly income, that is 78 percent. In the following years, many migrants still leave: of all the workers who came here after 1999, almost three -quarters are gone after ten years.
Unemployment in your own country
In addition to the salary, more factors influence the stay of labor migrants. For example, they are inclined to return if unemployment in their own country is lower or the economy there is growing faster than in the Netherlands. Baan loss is of course also a reason for quick return. But anyone who has a partner born in the Netherlands will stay longer.