This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After …

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 …

selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …

evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants’ careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our … analysis highlights a novel form of selective return migration where those who plan to stay longer invest more into skill …. Finally, our model provides important insight for the design of migration policies, showing that policies which initially …

evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants’ careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our … analysis highlights a novel form of selective return migration where those who plan to stay longer invest more into skill …. Finally, our model provides important insight for the design of migration policies, showing that policies which initially …

in the home country, measured as rainfall shocks at the time of emigration. Second, amnesty quotas that grant legal …