Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21026 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 183
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to extrapolate from these estimates on the basis of conditioning information that is assumed to be known with certainty. In this context, this strategy faces formidable problems that exceed the usual difficulties arising for the prediction of economic variables. This paper addresses this extrapolation problem formally, with an application to the case of EU-enlargement and the ensuing migration streams to be expected from Eastern Europe.
Subjects: 
Demographic Structure
Variance Components
GMM
JEL: 
J61
J11
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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