Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
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 …