Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating … human capital theory and a household production model of migration where migrants may be temporary by choice and not because … of legal restrictions or even a bad experience in the labor market. -- Migration ; temporary migrants ; labor supply …

) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migration from these countries. We find that EaP … to unleash the potential of migration for the German economy. …

This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market … endogenous age of entry in estimating the returns to years since migration by allowing cross-equation correlations of random …

robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …

then illustrate the consequences both types of temporary migration have for migrants' behaviour (as opposed to a permanent … migration). If migrations are non-permanent, then this has also consequences for the way empirical models need to be specified … with permanent migration intentions. …

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …

remittances into account. Moreover, we find that marginal propensity to save for immigrants is about 40% higher than that for … naturalization has caused significant reductions of savings and remittances for immigrants as a whole, in the magnitude of 13% and 29 …