. One important element of this theory is the role of remittances that is absent in traditional migration theories. In this …In this study we analyse the impact of workers' remittances on the decision to migrate by means of cointegration … analysis. In traditional migration theories, especially in human capital models, the decision to migrate is based upon …

Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating …

depreciation in human capital with migration or differences in endowments. However, even after considering human capital measures …Theoretisch lassen sich Lohnunterschiede zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen mithilfe der Humankapitaltheorie erklären …. Diese unterstellt Ausstattungsunterschiede oder eine Abwertung von Humankapital bei Migration. Trotzdem bleibt auch nach …

are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as skilled jobs (cross-skill matching), then their expected time to find a … jobs (ex post segmented matching), it might be that the high-skilled actually need longer to find a job. We then provide … theoretical predictions: in case of cross-skill matching, the job finding rate of the high- and low-skilled does not differ …