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Determinants and Consequences of International Migration

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New Frontiers in Interregional Migration Research

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This chapter provides a simple overview of the canonical model of international migration, discusses the consequences of migration on both sending and receiving countries and draws some considerations on future research prospects for the international migration literature.

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Notes

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    Please refer to McFadden (1984) for more details about the properties of the distribution and for a complete treatment of the derivation of this expression. Just to provide the intuition, this expression says that for individual i the choice of migrating to country k provides him more utility than any other possible destination h ≠ J and is also higher than the choice of staying in j. This derivation is possible only under the assumption that the choice of one destination does not depend on the characteristic of the others.

  2. 2.

    See Brücker et al. (2013) for more information on the latest version of the data.

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  1. Economics Department, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Munich, Germany

    Andrea Ariu

  2. IFO, Munich, Germany

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  3. CRENOS, Cagliari, Italy

    Andrea Ariu

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  3. Department of Economics, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA

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  4. Faculty of Spatial Sciences, Department of Economic Geography, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Viktor A. Venhorst

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Ariu, A. (2018). Determinants and Consequences of International Migration. In: Biagi, B., Faggian, A., Rajbhandari, I., Venhorst, V. (eds) New Frontiers in Interregional Migration Research. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75886-2_3

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