The paper addresses the distinctiveness of migration flows in the post-Soviet space east of the European Union: the … framework of the migration systems theory, the paper offers a quantitative analysis of the scale and mechanics of cross …-regional migration flows relative to those between the region and third countries. Next, an econometric gravity model has been applied to …

Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country … tractable model for international migration which explicitly allows for the time varying and asymmetric dimensions of cultural … dimensional fixed effects which enables for the identification of the impact of cultural proximity on migration over and beyond …

Factors shaping international migration, over the last half century, from and into the countries and territories of sub …