Migration Aspirations and Intentions

Matthias Huber, Till Nikolka, Panu Poutvaara, Ann-Marie Sommerfeld and Silke Uebelmesser

No 9708, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We carried out two multinational surveys to analyze aspirations and intentions to emigrate, and how these are linked to each other. One survey covered language course participants in 14 countries, and another students in 6 countries. We identify two groups that have been largely neglected in previous research on migration aspirations and intentions: those who intend to migrate permanently without aspirations to do so and those who intend to migrate temporarily. Analyzing main motivations to emigrate shows that discrepancy among women is driven mainly by family, and among men by work and studies.

Keywords: international migration; migration choice; temporary migration; permanent migration; aspirations; intentions; multinational survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 F22 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-int, nep-lab and nep-mig
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