Scale, diversity, and determinants of labour migration in Europe

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F.

doi:10.1093/oxrep/grn028

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“…The level of explanation (R 2 ) was greatest for Stayers -those who have never migrated and do not intend to migrate in future, followed by Roamers, and then Aspirers. The overall level of explanation provided by risk and risk-related competences and motivations is reasonable, or relatively good, compared to many analyses of the determinants of migration (Zaiceva and Zimmermann 2008;van Dalen and Henkens 2012). The distribution of coefficient values confirmed that there are striking contrasts between the four mobility groups in terms of their socio-demographic characteristics, tolerance of risk (general versus mobility-specific risks) and competence to manage risks.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

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Mobility, risk tolerance and competence to manage risks

Williams

Baláž

2013

Journal of Risk Research

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Migration is a risky behaviour because of uncertainty about future wages, living conditions, changing relationships with family and friends and cultural adjustment. Migration researchers recognize the importance of risk and uncertainty but mostly have approached this as a form of 'rational' decision making, rather than in terms of how behavioural economics analyses 'irrational' risky behaviours such as drinking, smoking or participating in dangerous sports. The rationalist approaches explain why some groups of individuals are more likely than others to migrate, but find it difficult to explain individual variations in behaviour within these groups. Individual migrants versus non migrants are self-selected in terms of tolerance of risk and uncertainty but, with very few exceptions, there has been no research on migration within the framework of risk tolerance/aversion and competence to manage risk. Moreover, existing research is based on, and constrained by the limitations of, incumbent data sets. Drawing on a specially commissioned large-scale survey of the UK population, this paper uses principal components and logistic regression to analyse the extent to which risk and risk-related measures can be used to predict four different types of mobility profiles. There is evidence of significant associations with general risk/uncertainty tolerance, and 2 competence-based tolerance. These are strongest in terms of the two most polarised mobility types: the least mobile, the Stayers, and the most mobile, the Roamers.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 51%

Mobility, risk tolerance and competence to manage risks

Williams

Baláž

2013

Journal of Risk Research

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“…Numerous empirical studies have estimated the individual migration decision, consistently concluding that age has a negative impact on the migration probability (see, among others, Bauer and Zimmermann, 1999 for a review; Zaiceva and Zimmermann, 2008). Table 2 reviews the selected studies and presents coefficients of age estimates.…”

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confidence: 99%

Migration and the Demographic Shift

Zaiceva

Zimmermann

2016

Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging

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“…Migration had the dominant impact but is the most uncertain determinant of population change. As labour migration has dominated in Europe for decades (Zaiceva and Zimmermann, 2008) it is linked to economic growth and at a deeper level to perceived income disparities, quality of life and migration policy. Increasing Irish fertility rates are anomalously high (Feld, 2005) and seen as unlikely to be maintained.…”

Section: Populationmentioning

confidence: 99%