Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Wong, Pui-Hang
Author-Email: wong@merit.unu.edu 
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT
Author-Name: Celbis, Mehmet Guney 
Author-Email: celbis@merit.unu.edu 
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Migration as a response to differences in human rights and income:
	 A bilateral panel study
Abstract: This study addresses the question of why migration persists despite 
	 welfare improvements in migrant-sending countries. We show that migrants 
	 proceed to a location where the difference in freedom and income 
	 relative to their original location is large. Moreover, it is not only 
	 the origin-destination differences that play a role, but also the 
	 differences of these locations with the rest of the world. We reach our 
	 results by controlling for this dependency and possible sample selection 
	 biases in the context of origin-destination models.
Keywords: International migration, human rights, freedom, income differences,
	 bilateral flow  
Classification-JEL: F22, F50, F68, O15, P16 
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20151203
Number: 2015-053
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2015/wp2015-053.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2015053