Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55090 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5958
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The rate of migration observed between two countries does not depend solely on their relative attractiveness, but also on the one of alternative destinations. Following the trade literature, we term the influence exerted by other destinations on bilateral flows as Multilateral Resistance to Migration, and we show how it can be accounted for when estimating the determinants of migration flows in the context of a general individual random utility maximization model. We propose the use of the Common Correlated Effects estimator (Pesaran, 2006) and apply it to high-frequency data on the Spanish immigration boom between 1997 and 2009. Compared to more restrictive estimation strategies developed in the literature, the bias goes in the expected direction: we find a smaller effect of GDP per capita and a larger effect of migration policies on bilateral flows.
Subjects: 
international migration
economic determinants
migration policies
time-varying attractiveness
multiple destinations
JEL: 
F22
O15
J61
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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