Migrants’ location choice: the role of migration experience

Eugenia Chernina

No 2016/3, Working Papers from Maastricht School of Management

Abstract: This paper studies how the previous destination choices by household members might affect current choice by labor migrants from Tajikistan in Russia. We use 2007 and 2009 waves of Tajikistan Living Standards Survey combined with Rosstat regional statistics to analyze the effect of 2007 household migration experience and receiving regions’ characteristics on 2008-2009 migrants’ location choice within Russia. Our results suggest that there exists inertia in migrants’ choices: previously chosen destinations largely define future ones. This inertia results in quickly weakening effect of labor market conditions on migrants’ choice with migration experience.

Keywords: labor migration; international migration; destination choice; location choice; Tajikistan; Russia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2016-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cis, nep-cwa, nep-int, nep-mig and nep-tra
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