the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …

the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …

specially developed written questionnaire on the reasons for their international move. In the years 2002 to 2005, 228 immigrants … questionnaire to 52 of these immigrants. On this basis 23 interviews were ultimately carried out. Limited selectivity problems were …

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

immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with … otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries, with good German language skills … gap. Immigrants are initially less likely to participate in the labor market and more likely to be unemployed. While …

specially developed written questionnaire on the reasons for their international move. In the years 2002 to 2005, 228 immigrants … questionnaire to 52 of these immigrants. On this basis 23 interviews were ultimately carried out. Limited selectivity problems were …

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

Empirical evidence suggests that the majority of immigrants who initially planned a temporary stay end up staying …

Return migration intentions are complex and are not necessarily followed by future return migration. Our study compares … successful return or repeated migration with self-declared return intentions. We take advantage of the latest German Socio …-Economic Panel survey dropout studies and fieldwork to observe a wider return migration window than reported in the literature to …

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