in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration – is fundamentally …

Recent migration patterns show growing migration pressure and changing composition of immigrants in many Western … educational level of the population is low. The migration patterns may be affected by the relatively generous welfare schemes in … most OECD countries, but also network effects and migration policy changes may be important factors behind the observed …

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 …

that several factors are important determinants of both trade and migration flows, the previous studies are vulnerable to a … trade and immigration flows are based on geography and the demographic trends of each country's trade and migration partners …

results provide evidence of migration contribution to host economic prosperity (positive impact on GDP per capita and negative … impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …

The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host … upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations. We rely on a Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator to derive … reflect the uncertainty connected to the use of aggregate data, and we show that bilateral migration flows can be highly …