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Network migration: do neighbouring regions matter?
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Abstract This paper analyses the role of the spatial structure of migrant networks in the location decision of migrants to the European Union at the regional level. Using a random parameters logit specification, a significant positive effect of migrant networks in neighbouring regions on migrants’ location d... view more
This paper analyses the role of the spatial structure of migrant networks in the location decision of migrants to the European Union at the regional level. Using a random parameters logit specification, a significant positive effect of migrant networks in neighbouring regions on migrants’ location decisions is found. Although this spatial spillover effect is smaller than the effect of networks in the host regions, omitting to control for this spatial dependence results in a 40% overestimation of the effect of regional migrant networks on the location decision of newly arriving migrants.... view less
Keywords
migration; EU; choice of location; network
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
EU-LFS; network migration; location decisions; spatial heterogeneity; random parameters logit
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 107-117
Journal
Regional Studies, 53 (2019) 1
Issue topic
Communities on the move: migration and regional development
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2017.1380305
ISSN
1360-0591
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0