Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/69383 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7094
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations. We rely on a Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator to derive estimates that are consistent under more general distributional assumptions on the underlying RUM model than the ones commonly adopted in the literature. We derive bounds for the estimated direct and indirect effects of visa policies and networks that reflect the uncertainty connected to the use of aggregate data, and we show that bilateral migration flows can be highly sensitive to the immigration policies set by other destination countries, an externality that we are able to quantify.
Subjects: 
international migration
networks
visa policies
multiple destinations
externalities
JEL: 
F22
O15
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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