A practitioners' guide to gravity models of international migration

Michel Beine, Simone Bertoli and Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga

DEM Discussion Paper Series from Department of Economics at the University of Luxembourg

Abstract: The use of bilateral data for the analysis of international migration is at the same time a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing since the dyadic dimension of the data allows researchers to address a number of previously unanswered questions, but it is also a curse for the various analytical challenges it gives rise to. This paper presents the theoretical foundations of the estimation of gravity models of international migration, and the main difficulties that have to be tackled in the econometric analysis, such as the nature of migration data, how to account for multilateral resistance to migration or endogeneity. We also review some empirical evidence that has considered these issues.

Keywords: Gravity equation; discrete choice models; international migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dcm, nep-ecm, nep-int and nep-mig
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Journal Article: A Practitioners’ Guide to Gravity Models of International Migration (2016)
Working Paper: A Practitioners’ Guide to Gravity Models of International Migration (2016)
Working Paper: A practitioners' guide to gravity models of international migration (2014)
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