The motives behind the choice of return migration require investigating, as they can be not just wage premiums or the optimal migration duration abroad but rather the investment in human capital abroad, remittances and savings patterns in the host country. More crucially, the return migration is also influenced by the performance in the home country labour market upon return, accounting for individual heterogeneity. Thus, in this study we made an effort to analyse who are the returnees, what is their labour market performance and whether it really pays off to return home.