Browsing Working papers by Author "Zimmermann, Klaus F."

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    • Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants 

      Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. (2014-04)
      This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fl uc- tuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 ...

    • Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China 

      Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier B.; Giulietti, Corrado; Robalino, Juan D.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. (2015-08)
      The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural to Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) dataset we estimate a series of well-being functions to simultaneously ...