Risk aversion and the willingness to migrate in 30 transition countries
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43110%2F20%3A43917990" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43110/20:43917990 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-020-00777-3" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-020-00777-3</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-020-00777-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00148-020-00777-3</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Risk aversion and the willingness to migrate in 30 transition countries
Original language description
This paper uses individual-level data covering 30 transition countries that account for over one-quarter of the worldwide immigrant stock to assess the impact of risk aversion on willingness to migrate. It extends the previous literature by allowing the effect of risk aversion to depend on the level of risk in the sending country. Consistent with theories of individual-level migration decisions, we find that risk aversion has a robust and statistically significant negative impact on willingness to migrate within countries as well as abroad. As predicted by theory, this impact is robustly less negative in riskier sending countries. Furthermore, this negative impact is significantly larger for willingness to migrate abroad than willingness to migrate internally. We also find that, even after controlling for an extensive set of control variables, willingness to migrate internally and abroad are highly correlated. This suggests that internal and international mobility decisions are closely linked.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50402 - Demography
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Population Economics
ISSN
0933-1433
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
33
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
36
Pages from-to
1463-1498
UT code for WoS article
000537399300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85085876958