Motivations for Migration: An Assessment and a Value-Expectancy Research Model

Gf, De Jong; Jt, Fawcett

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“…For Wolpert, housing stress is generated when households derive a lower level of utility from their current dwelling than is accessible elsewhere. Households therefore move in order to maximise the utility they derive from their housing consumption (Brown and Moore 1970;De Jong and Fawcett 1981). Life cycle transitions may still motivate moves by reducing the level of utility a household derives from their housing, for instance if a dwelling becomes too small for an expanding household.…”

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A Longitudinal Analysis of Moving Desires, Expectations and Actual Moving Behaviour

2011

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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. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.IZA Discussion Paper No. 5277 October 2010 ABSTRACT A Longitudinal Analysis of Moving Desires, Expectations and Actual Moving BehaviourMany theories of residential mobility contend that individuals express a sequence of moving desires, intentions and expectations prior to moving. Much research has investigated how individuals form these pre-move thoughts, with a largely separate literature examining actual mobility. Only a few studies have attempted to link pre-move thoughts to subsequent actual moves, but these often do not explicitly distinguish between different types and combinations of pre-move thoughts. Using 1998-2006 British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data, this study is the first to investigate whether moving desires and expectations are empirically distinct pre-move thoughts. Using multinomial regression models we demonstrate that moving desires and expectations have different meanings, and often occur in combination: the factors associated with expecting to move differ depending upon whether the move is also desired (and vice versa). Next, using panel logistic regression models, we show that different desire-expectation combinations have different effects on the probability of subsequent moving behaviour.JEL Classification: J61, R21, R23

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A Longitudinal Analysis of Moving Desires, Expectations and Actual Moving Behaviour

2011

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“…This topic is timely, in view of the growing phenomenon of cross-border mobility and migration (Chort, Gubert, and Senne 2012;McIlwaine 2011), a prime policy concern for the European Union and beyond (European Commission 2013). However, within the migration debate there is also increasing recognition that people's reasons for migration are highly divergent, ranging from macro-level motives such as political or economic instability in the country of origin, to micro-level motives such as romantic pursuits, family reunification, educational pursuits, and so forth (De Jong and Fawcett 1981;Krieger 2004).…”

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Past, present and future: how the Lithuanian Diaspora in the Netherlands accumulates human capital from social capital

Ferguson

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Boersma

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This paper explains how social capital activates the accumulation of human capital within a Diaspora context. Our study focused on migrants in the Lithuanian Diaspora and revealed unexpected differences in the way low-and high-skilled migrants developed and applied social capital in order to accumulate human capital. Namely, despite a less privileged point of departure, low-skilled Lithuanians appeared stronger in developing new social networks, and were more driven to strengthen their human capital than high-skilled migrants. The study provides novel empirical and theoretical insights by explaining the significance of social capital in the accumulation of human capital among Diaspora communities. In so doing, the study provides important insights for integration policy development for immigrant-receiving countries, offering a different perspective on high-and low-skilled migrant mobility and integration intentions. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Les motifs invoqués pour migrer ont le mérite de constituer l'interpréta-tion la plus simple et la plus directe du phénomène (De Jong et Fawcett, 1981). Il est possible, sur la base de ces motifs, de distinguer plusieurs types de migrations, ce que les études portant sur les déterminants ne permettent généralement pas (Lansing et Mueller, 1967).…”

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“…Divers filtres de nature socio-psychologique séparent les conditions objectives vécues par l'individu et les raisons subjectives qu'il donne pour expliquer son départ. Ces raisons constituent une réflexion a posteriori des actions passées, avec le risque de présenter une interpréta-tion simplifiée des nombreux motifs impliqués dans le processus de déci-sion (De Jong et Fawcett, 1981 ;Williams et Sofranko, 1979). Taylor (1969) évoque les travaux de Pareto et de Festinger pour illustrer que l'explication fournie après coup peut être le fruit d'un processus de rationalisation par lequel un individu réinterprète ses actes et leur donne un sens.…”

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Migrations secondaires des nouveaux immigrants au cours de leurs quatre premières années au Canada : motivations et trajectoires

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2011

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Motivations for Migration: An Assessment and a Value-Expectancy Research Model

Cited by 239 publications

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A Longitudinal Analysis of Moving Desires, Expectations and Actual Moving Behaviour

A Longitudinal Analysis of Moving Desires, Expectations and Actual Moving Behaviour

Past, present and future: how the Lithuanian Diaspora in the Netherlands accumulates human capital from social capital

Migrations secondaires des nouveaux immigrants au cours de leurs quatre premières années au Canada : motivations et trajectoires

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