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K B Newbold - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Income, self-selection, and return and onward interprovincial Migration in Canada.
Environment & planning A, 1996Co-Authors: K B NewboldAbstract:"Estimated returns to Migration based on comparison of individual migrants may be biased owing to self-selection in the Migration process. Using data derived from the 1986 Canadian census, I will study the effects of expected wage differentials in determining the return or onward Migration decision of nonnative adults aged 20 to 64 years. Evidence was found that return Migrations were in the 'right' direction, as they are observed to respond to provincial economic variables (that is, average employment growth and income levels) in a rational manner. After accounting for self-selectivity, I found that...return migrants...are negatively selected, and experience lower income levels, following the return Migration, than onward migrants would have, had they chosen the return Migration Option. This drop in expected wages decreases the propensity associated with making a return Migration. Despite this drop in income, the large proportion selecting the return Migration Option suggests the importance of the province of birth in the mental map of nonnative migrants."
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Income, self-selection, and return and onward interprovincial Migration in Canada.
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1996Co-Authors: K B NewboldAbstract:Estimated returns to Migration based on comparison of individual migrants may be biased owing to self-selection in the Migration process. Using data derived from the 1986 Canadian census, I will study the effects of expected wage differentials in determining the return or onward Migration decision of nonnative adults aged 20 to 64 years. Evidence was found that return Migrations were in the ‘right’ direction, as they are observed to respond to provincial economic variables (that is, average employment growth and income levels) in a rational manner. After accounting for self-selectivity, I found that results indicate that return migrants (individuals migrating back to their province of birth) are negatively selected, and experience lower income levels, following the return Migration, than onward migrants would have, had they chosen the return Migration Option. This drop in expected wages decreases the propensity associated with making a return Migration. Despite this drop in income, the large proportion se...
Mathias Czaika - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Migration and Economic Prospects
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2014Co-Authors: Mathias CzaikaAbstract:Uncertainty and risk perceptions are important elements in the decision-making process about Migration. This study outlines a ‘Migration prospect theory’, which aims to explain rather short-term fluctuations of Migration flows as a consequence of expectation-based adjustment about future economic prospects. I argue that individuals with Migration intentions continuously assess general economic prospects, including the labour market situation, at home and abroad in order to form reference points and updates for their Migration-related expectations. Consequently, deviations from reference points generate expectation-based utility gains or losses for potential migrants, which affect the value of the Migration Option. This can lead to a cancellation or procrastination of the individual Migration project. Based on an analysis of intra-European Migration inflows to Germany between 2001 and 2010, supportive empirical evidence about some key implications of this Migration prospect theory is found: first, Migration flows respond more strongly to negative than to equal-sized positive economic prospects, indicating loss aversion of potential migrants; second, expectation-based prospects about the future economic situations in the home and potential destination country can both counterbalance or reinforce structural economic incentives based on real economic aggregates and third, Migration flows show a diminishing sensitivity for larger fluctuations in expectation-based adjustments of economic prospects.
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Migration in times of uncertainty: On the role of economic prospects
2012Co-Authors: Mathias CzaikaAbstract:Uncertainty and risk perceptions are important elements in the decision-making process about Migration. This study outlines a ‘Migration prospect theory’, i.e. an application and advancement of Kahneman and Tversky’s (1979; Tversky and Kahneman 1991) original prospect theory, which aims to explain short-term fluctuations of Migration flows as a consequence of expectation-based adjustment about future economic prospects. I argue that individuals with Migration intentions continuously assess general economic prospects, including the labour market situation, at home and abroad in order to form reference points and updates for their Migration-related expectations. Consequently, deviations from reference points generate (short-term) expectation-based utility gains or losses for potential migrants, which affect the value of the Migration Option. This can lead to a cancellation or procrastination of the individual Migration project. Based on an analysis of annual and quarterly intra-European Migration inflows to Germany between 2001 and 2010, supportive empirical evidence about some key implications of this Migration prospect theory is found: first, Migration flows respond more strongly to negative than to equal-sized positive economic prospects, indicating loss aversion of potential migrants; second, expectation-based prospects about the future economic situation in the home and in the potential destination country can counterbalance or enforce structural economic incentives based on real economic aggregates; and third, Migration flows show a diminishing sensitivity for larger fluctuations in expectation-based adjustments of economic prospects.
Marrit Van Den Berg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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International labour Migration and local rural activities in the Kyrgyz Republic: determinants and trade-offs
Central Asian Survey, 2012Co-Authors: Aziz Atamanov, Marrit Van Den BergAbstract:This paper uses a representative household-budget survey from the Asian Development Bank to analyse the determinants of international labour Migration, distinguishing between seasonal and permanent (long-term) moves and comparing them with determinants of rural local income-generating activities in the Kyrgyz Republic. It has been found that both permanent Migration and local nonfarm-wages employment substitute agricultural activities and attract the most educated rural individuals. The difference is that the permanent Migration Option is unattainable for individuals from poor households with small land holdings. They tend to engage in local nonfarm activities, while those who are educated and have resources to finance the cost of Migration choose to leave the country for long periods of time. In contrast to permanent Migration, seasonal Migration does not require the possession of either higher or vocational education, which can make it potentially less harmful for local development in terms of brain drain.
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Determinants of International Seasonal and Permanent Migration in Comparison to Local Activities in Rural Areas of the Kyrgyz Republic
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010Co-Authors: Aziz Atamanov, Marrit Van Den BergAbstract:This paper uses a unique representative household budget survey from the Asian Development Bank to analyze the determinants of permanent and seasonal Migration in rural areas of the Kyrgyz Republic and compare them with determinants of other local income generating activities. We have found that both permanent Migration and local wage nonfarm employment substitute agricultural activities and compete for the most educated rural individuals. The difference is that permanent Migration Option is unattainable for individuals from poor households with small size of land and they engage in local nonfarm activities, while those who are educated and have resources to finance cost of Migration choose to leave permanently the country. Finally, brain drain effect seems to be relevant only for permanent, but not for seasonal Migration which does not require possession neither of higher nor vocational education
Aziz Atamanov - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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International labour Migration and local rural activities in the Kyrgyz Republic: determinants and trade-offs
Central Asian Survey, 2012Co-Authors: Aziz Atamanov, Marrit Van Den BergAbstract:This paper uses a representative household-budget survey from the Asian Development Bank to analyse the determinants of international labour Migration, distinguishing between seasonal and permanent (long-term) moves and comparing them with determinants of rural local income-generating activities in the Kyrgyz Republic. It has been found that both permanent Migration and local nonfarm-wages employment substitute agricultural activities and attract the most educated rural individuals. The difference is that the permanent Migration Option is unattainable for individuals from poor households with small land holdings. They tend to engage in local nonfarm activities, while those who are educated and have resources to finance the cost of Migration choose to leave the country for long periods of time. In contrast to permanent Migration, seasonal Migration does not require the possession of either higher or vocational education, which can make it potentially less harmful for local development in terms of brain drain.
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Determinants of International Seasonal and Permanent Migration in Comparison to Local Activities in Rural Areas of the Kyrgyz Republic
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010Co-Authors: Aziz Atamanov, Marrit Van Den BergAbstract:This paper uses a unique representative household budget survey from the Asian Development Bank to analyze the determinants of permanent and seasonal Migration in rural areas of the Kyrgyz Republic and compare them with determinants of other local income generating activities. We have found that both permanent Migration and local wage nonfarm employment substitute agricultural activities and compete for the most educated rural individuals. The difference is that permanent Migration Option is unattainable for individuals from poor households with small size of land and they engage in local nonfarm activities, while those who are educated and have resources to finance cost of Migration choose to leave permanently the country. Finally, brain drain effect seems to be relevant only for permanent, but not for seasonal Migration which does not require possession neither of higher nor vocational education
J. Iglesias Martínez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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2015Co-Authors: J. Iglesias MartínezAbstract:Europe strengthens its dimension as an international community, despite crisis facing the continent. Internationalism has shown to be a factor with growing political and societal importance and especially in higher education policy making. The aim of European integration is based on educational decisions, more specifically through various actions of Erasmus mobility. So, since 1987, this programme has involved 3 million people. Our study shows how the Erasmus Exchange Programme has had a leading role setting a common European entity. This research analyzes the European mobility from the University of Oviedo in Erasmus program, and describes the reasons for student participation. The students include a mastery of the language of the country, academic and cultural factors drive most of them to make the stay as well as the need to know a new environment and have an experience of European range. The job prospects are another motivating factor, with the overall assessment of the planned stay as acceptable, good or excellent in most cases.