Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34633 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2999
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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 countries are indeed repeat or circular migrants. Migrants from European Union member countries, those not owning a dwelling in Germany, the younger and the older (excluding the middle ages), are significantly more likely to engage in repeat migration and to stay out for longer. Males and those migrants with German passports exit more frequently, while those with higher education exit less; there are no differences with time spent out. Migrants with family in the home country remain out longer, and those closely attached to the labor market remain less; they are not leaving the country more frequently.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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