immigration and emigration country: What determines their optimal migration duration, and what are the activities migrants choose … activities. We then develop a model, where migrants decide simultaneously about the optimal migration duration, and their after … migration duration are simultaneously chosen. …

temporary, the optimal migration duration may decrease if the wage differential grows larger. Using micro data for Germany, the … duration. This paper analyses optimal migration durations in a model which rationalises the decision of the migrant to return …

in Moldova, we find that those who stayed illegally in the host country tend to go in wage employment on return to the … home country. We also show that relatively better educated tend not be in formal employment, i.e., appear not to …

return migrants while explicitly differentiating between self-employment as either own account work or entrepreneurship …

decisions about the choice of activity upon returning and the duration of migration. The theoretical model builds on Dustmann … skills acquired by migrants while abroad is related to the activity chosen upon return and the duration of migration. The …

reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar Germany. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term legacies of … postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women's labor market outcomes. We combine a unique dataset on city …-level destruction in Germany caused by the Allied Air Forces bombing during WWII with individual survey data from the German Microcensus …

conduct a detailed event history analysis of men and women immigrants in Germany. Our 14-year longitudinal study reveals that … emigrants are negatively selected with respect to occupational prestige and to stable full time employment. Our results show no … range and nature of social attachments to Germany and origin countries, and grows higher toward retirement. This selective …

like Germany occupations also reflect a general socio-economic standing. This paper looks at the patterns of employment in …There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is … Germany, analyzes how individual men and women access jobs given their family background, and investigates why men and women …

well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and … business careers, and by investigating differences between native women (both from West and East Germany) and migrants using a … rich data set from the German Socio-economic Panel. Results on self-employment proclivity are very sensitive to the …

and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German … Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that self-employment is not significantly affected by exposure to Germany or by human … self-employed than native Germans. The earnings of self-employed men increase with exposure to Germany, hours worked and …