This paper explores the difference between intentions and realizations in return migration with the help of a duration … underestimation may have important policy and modeling implications. -- Duration analysis ; international migration ; hedonic …

in Germany reveal that optimal migration duration decreases in ppp. The empirical findings also imply that …This paper examines how immigrants’ optimal migration duration in the host country responds to the purchasing power … parity (ppp) and relative wages between the host and source countries. A theoretical model of joint migration duration and …

This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the … substitute consumption intertemporally. However, the empirical results from immigrants in Germany reveal that optimal migration … duration decreases in ppp. Holding individual immigrant characteristics constant, immigrants from poorer source countries have …

This paper investigates how immigrants' Body Mass Index (BMI) changes with increasing years since migration in Germany … indicate a clear increase of the BMI with additional years in Germany for men and women. …

This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the … substitute consumption intertemporally. However, the empirical results from immigrants in Germany reveal that optimal migration … duration decreases in ppp. Holding individual immigrant characteristics constant, immigrants from poorer source countries have …

This paper focuses on the role of home country's fertility culture in shaping immigrants' fertility. I use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … and in different years. The variation in total fertility rates (TFRs) across countries and over time serves as a proxy for …