understanding of migration as a fundamentally open-ended process - open up new empirical perspectives for migration research. …

Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such … omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants’ economic … of migrant behavior. We propose a general theoretical framework for modeling temporary migration decisions, based on …

individuals with a personal migration background. Major findings are: First, concerns about xenophobia lead to higher remittances …. Second, income and gender has no impact on the probability to remit. Third, the acquisition of German citizenship is …

We analyze the return-migration of German immigrants using the latest data of the German Socio- Economic Panel from … reveals that return migration is heavily influenced by country of origin. Individuals from countries with free labor movement …

The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this … middle ages), are significantly more likely to engage in repeat migration and to stay out for longer. Males and those …