Willingness to Move for Work and Unemployment Duration in Spain

Abstract

This paper examines unemployed workers' willingness to move for work and its relationship to their unemployment duration in Spain. We use a hypothetical question in the Spanish Labour Force Survey: ‘Would you accept a job offer which implied a change of residence?’ The main finding is that, while family responsibility, age and education are important in determining individuals’ migration willingness, the duration of unemployment does not show any significant effect, even after controlling for unobserved fixed individual heterogeneity. However, the significant improvement in migration willingness after the exhaustion of unemployment benefits (or when other household members become unemployed) suggests that economic incentives could play an important role in increasing worker mobility. We also find that job‐finding probability is significantly higher among those with positive migration attitudes than among others.Universidad del País Vasco

Application of correspondence analysis to the identification of the influence of features of unemployed persons on the unemployment duration

“…Most results of the analyses shows that a higher level of education shortens the duration of unemployment [Kupets 2006, data: Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, 1998Bieszk-Stolorz and Markowicz 2011, data: Local Labour Office Szczecin 2011, survival analysis for censored data, Kaplan-Meier estimator, Cox regression; Grogan and van den Berg 2001, data: Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, 1994-1996Mavridis 2015, data: British Household Panel Survey, 1991, survival functions, Kaplan-Meier estimator, Cox proportional hazard model]. The same conclusion could be found in Kerckhofes, de Neubourg, and Palm [1994]; Ahn, de la Rica, and Ugidos [1999]; Daras and Jerzak [2005]; Carroll [2006]; Grzenda [2012]; Sasaki, Kohara, and Machikita [2013]; Kołodziejczak and Wysocki [2013]; Rotaru [2014]. More rarely one can find results showing that a lower level of education increases the chances for getting work [Stetsenko, 2003[Stetsenko, , 2001[Stetsenko, -2003, Cox proportional hazard model, piecewise exponential models].…”

“…Previous studies usually indicate the lack of this kind of relationship whereas the propensity to migrate "for work" increases in case of loss of work of the spouse and in the case of the lack of unemployment benefits [Ahn, de la Rica, and Ugidos 1999]. The regional differences in unemployment duration and the influence of business cycles and professional activation programmes could be also examined.…”

“…So disabled people have lower chances of obtaining work [Dànàcicà and Cîrnu 2014, data Short work seniority or no work experience diminishes the chances for getting work [Ahn, de la Rica and Ugidos 1999, data: Spanish Labour Force Survey, 1992-1995Batóg at al. 2000;Carroll 2006].…”

“…Previous studies concerning unemployment duration were most often conducted with the application of event history analysis, inflow-outflow analysis of the labour market [Socha and Sztanderska 2002;Wysocki and Kołodziejczak 2007], probit and logit models [Ahn, de la Rica, and Ugidos 1999]. The current study is different from others because it applies a correspondence analysis that is one of the multidimensional methods.…”

Regional Structures and Mobility Dispositions: A Multilevel Proportional- & Partial-Proportional Odds Approach

“…In addition, an increasing percentage of ethnic minorities enhances moving wishes (Feijten / van Ham 2009, Permentier et al 2009). When focusing on the willingness to move of unemployed individuals, Ahn et al (1999) observe negative effects concerning the local vacancy rate as well as with respect to regional house prices. Considering these noticeable effects on the regional level, surprisingly few studies investigate interactions between regional-and individual-level predictors when analyzing mobility intentions.…”