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The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe
Betz, William; Simpson, Nicole B. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786218
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The Well-Being of Nations : Estimating Welfare from International Migration
Lee, Sanghoon - 2019
The limitations of GDP as a measure of welfare are well known. We propose a new method of estimating the well-being of nations. Using gross bilateral international migration flows and a discrete choice model in which everyone in the world chooses a country in which to live, we estimate each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860549
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Moving to Despair? Migration and Well-Being in Pakistan
Chen, Joyce J. - 2017
Internal migration has the potential to substantially increase income, especially for the poor in developing countries, and yet migration rates remain low. We explore the role of psychic costs by evaluating the impacts of internal migration on a suite of well-being indicators using a unique,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952597
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Moving to despair? : migration and well-being in Pakistan
Chen, Joyce J.; Kosec, Katrina; Mueller, Valerie - 2017
Internal migration has the potential to substantially increase income, especially for the poor in developing countries, and yet migration rates remain low. We explore the role of psychic costs by evaluating the impacts of internal migration on a suite of well-being indicators using a unique,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672884
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The Effects of International Migration on the Well-Being of Native Populations in Europe
Betz, William - 2013
little is understood about how migrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being, of natives.This paper uses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082143
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The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe
Betz, William; Simpson, Nicole B. - 2013
little is understood about how migrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being, of natives. This paper uses the … migration ; happiness ; life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740085
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Potential migration and subjective well-being in Europe
Lovo, Stefania - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-18
By examining the preferences over migration destinations of those revealing a desire to permanently leave their country, this paper provides new evidence on the relevance of subjective measures for cross country comparisons. While hard statistics such as GDP per capita and unemployment rates are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472789
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Voting with your feet : migration flows and happiness
Marques, Helena; Pino, Gabriel; Tena, J. D. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 2, pp. 163-187
We establish a nexus between migration flows and self-assessed happiness by proposing an empirical model that brings … together the determinants of happiness proposed by psychology and the typical gravity variables from the economic migration … literature. Taking this estimation net of the usual gravity controls we propose an alternative happiness index that is consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865228
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Urbanization and Subjective Well-Being in China : Differences between Urban, Migrant, and Rural Populations
Cai, Shu; Wang, Jia - 2021
urbanization than urbanities. Conversely, urbanization is associated with an increase in respondents’ self-reported happiness, a … increases, the happiness gap between urban and migrant population appears to decrease while the gap between rural and migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212974
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Self-employment and migration
Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David J. - 2019
There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118294