Original title: Life (dis)satisfaction and the decision to migrate: evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
Authors: Otrachshenko, V. ; Popova, Olga
Document type: Research reports
Year: 2012
Language: eng
Series: CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, volume: 460
Abstract: This paper provides the first evidence regarding the impact of life satisfaction on the individual intention to migrate. The impact of individual characteristics and country macroeconomic variables on the decision to migrate is analyzed in one framework. Differently from other studies, we allow for life satisfaction to serve as a mediator between macroeconomic variables and the intention to migrate. Using the Eurobarometer Survey for 27 Central Eastern (CEE) and Western European (non-CEE) countries, we test the predictions of our theoretical model and …find that dissatisfi…ed with life, people have a higher intention to migrate. The macroeconomic conditions have an effect on the intention to migrate indirectly through life satisfaction. At all levels of life satisfaction, unemployed, middle-aged individuals with a low or average income from urban areas at all levels of education are found to have higher intentions to migrate from CEE countries than from non-CEE countries.
Keywords: decision making; life; life satisfaction; migration; rozhodování; život
Project no.: LC542 (CEP)
Funding provider: GA MŠk

Institution: Economics Institute AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the particular institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0232984

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