Arbeitspapier

The Willingness to Migrate in the CEECs. Evidence from the Czech Republic

Given the low levels of migration in the CEECs found in the literature, this paper raises the issue of who is willing to migrate in these countries. Using data on the willingness to migrate in the Czech Republic we show that variables measuring regional labour market conditions and amenities contribute little to explaining willingness to migrate, but that personal and household characteristics are more important. The least willing to migrate are the family-house owners, the less educated and the elderly as well as persons residing in regions with above-average unemployment rates. Improving the efficiency of the housing market and focusing on the problems of peripheral regions should thus be primary foci of a policy aimed at improving labour-market adjustment through migration. These policies are, however, unlikely to yield rapid returns, since the willingness to migrate of all subgroups analysed (except for the less educated) reacts only weakly to regional labour market incentives and amenities.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIFO Working Papers ; No. 286

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Willingness to Migrate
Regional Labour Market Adjustment
Binnenwanderung
Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt
Verhaltensökonomik
Schätzung
Osteuropa
Tschechien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fidrmuc, Jan
Huber, Peter
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
(wo)
Vienna
(wann)
2007

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fidrmuc, Jan
  • Huber, Peter
  • Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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