Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128884 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
WIFO Working Papers No. 322
Publisher: 
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the willingness to commute and migrate across borders. We focus on differences in the effects of individual characteristics on the willingness to migrate and the willingness to commute. Based on a random utility model we estimate a multinomial probit regression using individual level data on migration and commuting plans in regions of the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia bordering on Austria. We find that indirect costs of mobility have a smaller impact on the probability of being willing to commute. Variables associated with potential earnings have mostly low marginal effects and no evidence of selection by education.
Subjects: 
willingness to migrate
willingness to commute
cross-border commuting
multinomial probit regression
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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