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 …

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 …

address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment … public pension system. We calculate that, in the case of Germany, the fiscal consequences of the 6.4 year increase in age 65 …

An axiomatic construction for lifecycle preferences accounting for the finiteness and the randomness of life duration …

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 …