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

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 …

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. …

In simple static models, migration increases with the wage differential between host and home country. In a dynamic … framework, and if migrations are temporary, the size of the migrant population in the host country depends also on the migration … duration. This paper analyses optimal migration durations in a model which rationalises the decision of the migrant to return …

immigration and emigration country: What determines their optimal migration duration, and what are the activities migrants choose … activities. We then develop a model, where migrants decide simultaneously about the optimal migration duration, and their after … migration duration are simultaneously chosen. …