Arbeitspapier

Source country characteristics and immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions

This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. It is shown that in theory immigrants may stay longer in the host country as a result of an increase in ppp, in particular those with a high willingness to 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 shorter migration duration than immigrants from wealthier source countries. The empirical results also reveal that saving rate increases in ppp.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4899

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
International Migration
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Thema
International migration
immigrant workers
Migranten
Dauer
Internationale Wanderung
Internationale Arbeitsmobilität
Kaufkraftparität
Sparen
Zeitpräferenz
Lohnstruktur
International
Deutschland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kirdar, Murat G.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2010

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kirdar, Murat G.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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