Circular Movements and Time Away from the Host Country The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat migration. This paper studies repeat or circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of migrants living in Germany, and by the number of years being away from the host country using count data models. More than 60% of the guestworker generation curre...

Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behavior by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants from the guestworker countr...

The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European Commission as a policy to reduce welfare and social costs of immigration in destination countries. In this paper we present an additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the c...

This paper reviews economic studies on rural-urban migration issues in China. The review focuses on three issues: firstly, the explanations for the rural to urban migration, secondly, the interaction between migration and labor market evolution, with special attention to labor market segregation, labor market flexibility and wage differentials, and lastly suggestions for further research topics.

In article the model of labor migration is described. The model uses minimum quantity of the statistical data about migration. The model allows to use the scenario analysis for forecasting flows of labor migration, under condition of change of input parameters. In the article the list of operated factors is resulted and the functional dependences are defined. The model allows to evaluate flows ...

"The main aim of the present paper was to establish the dimensions of international labour migration in the Arab world in the last ten to fifteen years, to describe the major characteristics of a particular process of movement of labour in the area and to point to the factors that have [affected] the politics of the countries of employment. A further aim was to show the specific features of lab...

This is a review of the history of labor migration as it has affected the Arab world from the oil boom of the early 1970s to the present, with particular attention to the changing flow of remittances from migrants to their country of origin. (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA)

According to the latest census conducted by the United Nations, currently about 213 million people, i.e. more than 3 percent of the world's population, live outside the country of their birth. The great mobility of the population has definitely different effects on host countries’ economy. The labor market along with commodity, capital and money markets as one of the main pillars of the e...