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A Practitioners’ Guide to Gravity Models of International Migration

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: The use of bilateral data for the analysis of international migration is at the same time a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing because the dyadic dimension of the data allows researchers to address a number of previously unanswered questions, but it is also a curse for the various analytical challenges it gives rise to. This paper presents the theoretical foundations of the estimation of gravity models of international migration, and the main difficulties that have to be tackled in the econometric analysis, such as the nature of migration data, how to account for multilateral resistance to migration or endogeneity. We also review some empirical evidence that has considered these issues.

Source: World Economy

DOI: 10.1111/twec.12265

Authors: Michel Beine, Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández‐Huertas Moraga

Institutions: University of Luxembourg, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Language: English

Topic: Migration and Labor Dynamics

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International

OpenAlex ID: W2113794944

FWCI: 86.98

Cites: 64

Cited by: 349

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