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标题：Income and the desire to migrate
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作者：Monica Langella ; Alan Manning
期刊名称：CEP Discussion Paper
出版年度：2022
卷号：2022
语种：English
出版社：Centre for Economic Performance
摘要：We analyse the role of household and country-level personal income in explaining both the desire to emigrate and the desired destination country. We use data from the Gallup World Poll and applications to the US Diversity Visa Program. We find that higher GDP per capita at destination is strongly associated with a higher desire to move to that country. We do not find strong support for the selection hypothesis that people want to move to countries with a higher return to their level of education. On emigration, we find that both personal income and aggregate income matter. In poorer countries richer people are more likely to want to emigrate, while the opposite is true in richer countries. In looking at the impact of origin country income on the desire to emigrate, we find little evidence for the upward part of Zelinsky's 'hump-shape' migration transition hypothesis.
关键词：international migration;migration intentions;development