The willingness to migrate in the CEECs evidence from the Czech Republic

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Interregional migration and housing structure in an East European transition country: A view of Lithuania 2001–2008

“…Moreover, housing market variables clearly had a more significant effect on migration than variables proxying labour market conditions. Fidrmuc and Huber (2007) in their study of willingness to migrate in the Czech Republic found that owners of family houses have a significantly lower willingness to migrate than individuals in other types of tenure arrangements. A general observation was that household and personal characteristics are more important than labour market conditions in explaining willingness to migrate.…”

“…These are features of many Central and Eastern European (CEE) transition countries. Interregional mobility in CEE transition countries has been explored to some extent by researchers in empirical studies, for example in the case of Russia (Andrienko and Guriev 2003), the Baltic states, mainly Latvia and Estonia (Hazans 2003), Hungary (Cseres-Gergely 2005, Fidrmuc 2004), the Czech Republic (Fidrmuc 2004, Fidrmuc andHuber 2007), Romania (Ghatak and Silaghi 2007), Poland (Fidrmuc 2004, Ghatak et al 2008) and finally a cross-country study by the World Bank (2007). In these studies the main research interest was the relationship between internal migration and labour market conditions usually proxied by unemployment and wage rates, while some of these studies also took into account the effects of housing market conditions (Hegedus 2004, Cseres-Gergely 2005, Andrienko and Guriev 2003, Ghatak et al 2008.This paper aims to consider more explicitly the impact of housing on interregional mobility.…”

Scale, diversity, and determinants of labour migration in Europe

“…We follow here a broad strand of literature that analyses migration intentions in different countries including, for example, Burda (1993) for Germany, Ahn et al, (1999) for Spain, Epstein and Gang (2006) for Hungary, Fidrmuc and Huber,(2007) for the Czech Republic, Liebig and Sousa-Poza (2004) for 23 countries, Drinkwater, (2003) for Central and Eastern European countries, Krieger (2004) for accession countries, Ester (2007a, 2007b) and Bonin et al (2008) for the EU25. This literature relies on a high correlation between migration intentions and their realisations.…”

Emigration Intentions: Mere Words or True Plans? Explaining International Migration Intentions and Behavior

“…To cite a number of recent studies: Abrams, Hinkle and Tomlins. 1999;Boneva and Frieze 2001;Boneva et al 1998;Burda et al 1998;Drinkwater 2003, Drinkwater andIngram 2008;European Commission 2006;Epstein and Gang 2006;Faini 1999;Fidrmuc and Huber 2007;Frieze et al 2004;Krieger 2004 5. Katz and Stark (1987: 722) present an example that produces a U-shaped pattern by skill level: only the lower level skills and higher level skills migrate.…”