Manchin, Miriam;
(2023)
Global Evidence on the Relative Importance of Nonfinancial Drivers of International Migration Intentions.
International Migration Review
10.1177/01979183231162627.
(In press).
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Abstract
Using a global, individual-level survey, this article looks at the relative importance of local amenities and political institutions while controlling for other financial and nonfinancial incentives for individual plans to move between countries. Although the influence of wages and income differences has been extensively explored, less is known about specific non-income-related drivers of international migration and their relative importance. The analysis highlights that satisfaction with politics and amenities both at the origin and destination, are important drivers of migration intentions. These jointly with social networks explain about twice as much in international migration intention outcomes than employment-related incentives (such as relative individual income difference, employment, and job satisfaction), with relative income difference explaining only about 5 percent to 8 percent.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Global Evidence on the Relative Importance of Nonfinancial Drivers of International Migration Intentions |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/01979183231162627 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183231162627 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | intention to migrate, cross-country survey data, international migration |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > SSEES |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172926 |
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