Immigrants’ Location Preferences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment

Anna Piil Damm ()

No 05-2, Working Papers from University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper exploits a dispersal policy for refugee immigrants to

estimate the importance of local and regional factors for refugees’ location

preferences.

The main results of a mixed proportional hazard competing risks

model are that placed refugees react to high regional unemployment

and lack of a local immigrant population by migrating to large municipalities.

Lack of local fellow countrymen, however, increases the

exit rate to medium-sized as well as large municipalities. This finding

is likely to be a result of the dispersal policy. Finally, refugees react

strongly to assignment to small municipalities by migrating mainly to

medium-sized municipalities.

Keywords: Location Preferences; Internal Migration; Immigrants; Dispersal Policies; Duration Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 R15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo and nep-ure
Date: Written 2005-09-02
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