to inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the … migration are affected by the way migrants adapt to their new economic conditions, by with whom migrants compare themselves … migration on SWB, although it is strongly suppressed by dissatisfaction resulting from the comparison of migrants' income with …

distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …

understanding of migration as a fundamentally open-ended process - open up new empirical perspectives for migration research. …

Human capital theory predicts pecuniary returns to regional migration, but also positive self-selection of migrants …. Therefore, when estimating the causal effect of migration one has to take care of potential self-selection. Several authors … estimates of the returns to migration. We use data from the SOEP 1984-2010. First we analyze the time pattern of the wage …

Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such … omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants’ economic … of migrant behavior. We propose a general theoretical framework for modeling temporary migration decisions, based on …