Determinants of European immigration: a cross-country analysis

Gallardo-Sejas, Hugo; Gil‐Pareja, Salvador; Llorca‐Vivero, Rafael; Martínez‐Serrano, José Antonio

doi:10.1080/13504850500424975

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“…Besides, the most common practice in empirical analyses is augmenting/enlarging the basic gravity model to control for demographic, geographic, social, historical, cultural, economic and political factors (Gallardo-Sejas et al 2006;Mayda 2010;Ortega and Peri 2013;Ramos and Suriñach 2013).…”

Section: Model Data and Estimation Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Turkish migration to Europe: a modified gravity model analysis

Dedeoğlu

Genç

2017

IZA J Develop Migration

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This study specifies and applies a gravity model to provide empirical evidence on determinants of emigration from Turkey to 31 destination European countries over the period between 1960 and 2013. Results under alternative estimation strategies show that economic, demographic and cultural factors have significant influence on migration decision to the destination countries. The model has explanatory power and is useful for testing the given hypothesized determinants of migration from Turkey to 31 European countries from perspective of the country of origin. JEL Classification: F22, F14, C33

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Section: Model Data and Estimation Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Turkish migration to Europe: a modified gravity model analysis

Dedeoğlu

Genç

2017

IZA J Develop Migration

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“…Lower real wages in the source country due to inflation result in a higher real wage differential, thus incentivizing out-migration. For instance, Gallardo-Sejas et al (2006) show that migration increases with a higher inflation differential between home and destination countries.…”

Section: Economic Security and Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stymied ambition: does a lack of economic freedom lead to migration?

Meierrieks

Renner

2017

J Popul Econ

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis contribution investigates the relationship between economic freedom and international migration. We argue that higher levels of economic freedom in the source countries of migration may discourage migration by generating more economic security, providing more economic opportunities and stimulating overall economic activity. Using a panel dataset on migration from 91 developing and emerging to the 20 most attractive OECD destination countries for the 1980-2010 period, we find that more economic freedom at home discourages high-skilled migration but does not matter to low-skilled migration. The negative association between economic freedom and high-skilled emigration also holds when we estimate (dynamic) panel models that allow for endogeneity in the economic freedom-migration nexus. Our findings suggest that high-skilled individuals are especially responsive to the economic incentives arising from economic freedom. This is especially true for those components of economic freedom associated with the provision of economic security in the form of wellprotected property rights, sound money and limited government involvement in the economic life.JEL Classification: F22, J61

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“…Both indicators have proven to influence monetary expenses as well as non-monetary opportunity costs (such as foregone earnings while traveling and finding a job) incurred by the migrant (see e.g. Karemera et al, 2000;Gallardo-Sejas et al, 2006;Lewer and Van den Berg, 2008;Pedersen et al, 2008;Mayda, 2010). Given the relatively small size of the locations in our sample, there is not much variation in the distance between origin country and destination location and, as such, its inclusion in the empirical specification does not make much sense.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Finally, we expect that also cultural proximity, captured by the presence of a common language, cl, facilitates adaptation and integration in the new environment which in turn reduces the costs of migration and increases migration to those locations (see also Karemera et al, 2000;Gallardo-Sejas et al, 2006;Lewer and Van den Berg, 2008;Pedersen et al, 2008). As such, the local effect, α i , can be written as…”

Section: Time Invariant Variablesmentioning

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Immigrants’ location choice in Belgium

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This paper analyses migratory streams to Belgian municipalities between [1994][1995][1996][1997][1998][1999][2000][2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007]. The Belgian population register constitutes a rich and unique database of yearly migrant inflows and stocks broken down by nationality, which allows us to empirically explain the location choice of immigrants at municipality level. Specifically, we aim at separating the network effect, captured by the number of previous arrivals, from other location-specific characteristics such as local labor or housing market conditions and the presence of public amenities. We expect labor and housing market variables to operate at different levels and develop a fixed effects nested model of location choice in which an immigrant first chooses a broad area, roughly corresponding to a labor market, and subsequently chooses a municipality within this area. We find that the spatial repartition of immigrants in Belgium is determined by both network effects and local characteristics. The determinants of local attractiveness vary by nationality, as expected, but for all nationalities, they seem to dominate the impact of network effects.

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Determinants of European immigration: a cross-country analysis

Cited by 36 publications

References 7 publications

Turkish migration to Europe: a modified gravity model analysis

Turkish migration to Europe: a modified gravity model analysis

Stymied ambition: does a lack of economic freedom lead to migration?

Immigrants’ location choice in Belgium

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