Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71708 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7285
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper studies the migration response of the youth from new EU member states to disparate conditions in an enlarged European Union at the onset of the Great Recession. We use the Eurobarometer data and probabilistic econometric models to identify the key drivers of the intention to work in another member state of European Economic Area (EEA) and their expected duration. We find that migration intentions are high among those not married and among males with children, but both categories are also overrepresented among people with only temporary as opposed to long-term or permanent migration plans. Whereas age affects migration intentions negatively, education has no effect on whether working abroad is envisaged. However, conditional on envisaging to work abroad, completion of education (if after 16th birthday) is associated with long-term (at least five years), but not permanent, migration plans. Finally, we find that socio-demographic variables explain about as much variation of migration intentions as self-reported push and pull factors and migration constraints.
Subjects: 
EU labor markets
migration
youth
EU enlargement
labor mobility
free movement of workers
transitional arrangements
new member states
European Union
JEL: 
F22
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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