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conduct a detailed event history analysis of men and women immigrants in Germany. Our 14-year longitudinal study reveals that … range and nature of social attachments to Germany and origin countries, and grows higher toward retirement. This selective …
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This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their … skills acquired by migrants while abroad is related to the activity chosen upon return and the duration of migration. The … developed and developing countries, the economic development of the latter will increasingly depend on migrants' ability to …
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capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to human capital of …
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capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to human capital of …
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Dieses Working Paper beschreibt das Rückwanderungsgeschehen von Arbeitskräften in Deutschland und dessen Bedeutung für … Mobilität von Arbeitskräften im Erwerbsverlauf - Analysen für ländliche Räume in Deutschland" (MobiLä) des Thünen-Instituts für … Arbeitskräfte in Deutschland insgesamt zeigen unsere Auswertungen, dass von den Wohnortverlegungen über Kreisregionsgrenzen im …
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The paper provides new evidence on the outmigration of foreign-born immigrants. We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and employ penalised spline smoothing in the context of a Poisson-type Generalised Additive Mixed Model (GAMM), which enables us to incorporate bivariate...
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This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...
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Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. Based on data from Statistics Netherlands we … differences among migrants by migration motive and by country of origin and lend support to our analytical framework. Combining … composition of migrants in the country important policy implications can be derived, including admission procedures for different …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between immigrants' retirement status and the prevalence of return migration from the host country to their country of origin. We develop a simple theoretical model to illustrate that under reasonable conditions the probability of return migration is...
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Canada has experienced a unique problem as a subset of its immigrants, approximately 10%, leave after ascension to citizenship. In this paper I argue that both the degree of immigrant naturalization and subsequent emigration from Canada is conditioned by economic opportunities and Canadian...
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