Why Do Immigrants to Norway Leave the Country or Move Domestically? Some Important Facts

Terje Skjerpen, Tom Kornstad and Lasse Stambol

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Abstract: We consider immigrants living in Norway and their behavior with respect to mobility. Using cross-sectional data, we employ a trinomial logit model. An immigrant may (i) move to another centrality level, (ii) emigrate, or (iii) stay at the same centrality level as in the previous period. We carry out separate estimations for eight different groups, brought about combining four centrality levels with two genders. To assess the effect of different explanatory variables related to (i) duration of residence in Norway, (ii) labor market status, (iii) reason for immigration, (iv) the extent of education and (v) family size and composition, we calculate marginal effects. In line with earlier results, we obtain that longer duration of residence tends to decrease the probability of emigration and that immigrants who have stated escape as the reason for immigration to Norway tends to have lower probabilities for emigration than those who have stated work as the reason.

Keywords: Norway; immigrants; immigration; internal/domestic migration; emigration; importance of education; labor force participation; duration of residence; family (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/66951

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