Czaika, Mathias; Vothknecht, Marc - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-21
find evidence that migrants are self-selected along higher individual aspirations acquired (or, inherited) before migration …. However, despite the fact that migration is economically beneficial for most migrants, the migration experience itself seems … to further increase economic aspirations, hereby trapping migrants on a "hedonic treadmill". …