title: Immigrant decisions concerning duration of stay and migratory frequency.
abstract: "The temporary and repetitive character of contemporary labor migration is explained by assuming that immigrants have a preference for location.  A life-cyle model of immigrant behavior is developed to determine net lifetime income, total time allocated to home-country and foreign-country residence, and the number of migratory trips.  Because of income effects, home wages and foreign wages are not symmetric in their effect on the location of work effort.  It is also shown that changes in travelling costs have predictable consequences for the number of border crossings, but not for the total time spent in the foreign labor market."  The emphasis is on labor migration to developed countries.
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006280:Health Workforce; D007182:Income; D008018:Life Cycle Stages; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Family And Household; Family Research; Human Resources; Income; International Migration; Labor Force; Life Cycle; Migrants; Migration; Models, Theoretical; Population; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Socioeconomic Factors; Temporary Migration