Risk aversion and the willingness to migrate in 30 countries

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We use individual level data covering 30 mostly post-communist and developing countries which account for over a fifth of the worldwide immigrant stock to assess the impact of risk aversion on the willingness to migrate. Consistent with theories of individual level migration decisions, risk aversion has a statistically significant negative impact on both the willingness to migrate within countries as well as abroad. This applies to virtually all countries considered and is robust across various specifications, to alternative measures of risk aversion and to different measures of the willingness to migrate. Differences in the impact of risk aversion on the willingness to migrate are also positively correlated to measures of sending country risks and the missing variable bias of omitting risk aversion from migration regressions is substantial.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIFO Working Papers ; No. 569

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
• Thema: Migration intentions ; Risk Aversion ; Former Communist Countries

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Huber, Peter ; Nowotny, Klaus
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
• (wo): Vienna
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/194144
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ