and search intensity. -- Unemployment ; Migration ; Personality Traits ; Risk Attitudes ; Time Preferences ; Trust …

While the literature has established that there is substantial and highly selective return migration, the growing … importance of repeat migration has been largely ignored. Using Markov chain analysis, this paper provides a modeling framework …. The out-migration per year is low, about 10%. Migrants are more likely to leave again early after their arrival in Germany …

The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat migration. This paper studies repeat or … circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of migrants living in Germany, and by the number of years … the middle ages), and the newcomers and the more seasoned are significantly more likely to engage in circular migration …

In this paper we study the determinants of international migration to Germany, 1967-2000. The empirical literature on … macro-economic migration functions usually explains migration flows by a set of explanatory variables such as the income … acknowledged as nonstationary, the standard model in the migration literature can only meet the requirements of modern non …