Migration towards Europe and the “welfare magnet”: “Determinants of Turkish Migration to EU-15”

Kristýna Jedličková

Master's thesis

Anotácia:

The purpose of this thesis is to analyse which factors drive migration from Turkey towards Europe and whether the welfare benefits play a major role in the decision making process. The analysis is based on a gravitation model of migration in log-log form. The FE and RE methods were employed as estimation techniques and the Hausman test enabled to distinguish them. The present problem of heteroscedasticity was solved by adjusting the model with robust standard errors. The most important determinants appear to be individual income which immigrants can earn in the states of the EU-15 and welfare benefits provided by the EU-15. The number of acquisition of citizenship, as a proxy for migration policy of countries the EU-15, plays also important role. The limitation of the model is that the rest of the variables are not statistically significant and therefore we do not consider them as important determinants.

Abstract:

The purpose of this thesis is to analyse which factors drive migration from Turkey towards Europe and whether the welfare benefits play a major role in the decision making process. The analysis is based on a gravitation model of migration in log-log form. The FE and RE methods were employed as estimation techniques and the Hausman test enabled to distinguish them. The present problem of heteroscedasticity was solved by adjusting the model with robust standard errors. The most important determinants appear to be individual income which immigrants can earn in the states of the EU-15 and welfare benefits provided by the EU-15. The number of acquisition of citizenship, as a proxy for migration policy of countries the EU-15, plays also important role. The limitation of the model is that the rest of the variables are not statistically significant and therefore we do not consider them as important determinants.

Kľúčové slová

Welfare magnet, Migration, Migratory policy

Keywords

Migratory policy, Welfare magnet, Migration

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 25. 7. 2015

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 11. 1. 2016
• Vedúci: Anna Klosová
• Oponent: José Villaverde Castro

Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze

Master programme:
Economics of Globalisation and European Integration