IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ebl/ecbull/eb-12-00482.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Determinants of duration of migration: the case of free movement of labour force

Author

Listed:
  • Sultonov Mirzosaid

    (Kobe University, Kobe, Japan)

Abstract

In this paper, we define the determinants of migration duration, assuming free movement of migrants between the home country and the host country. The empirical findings show that mobility of migrants between the host county (Russia) and home country (Tajikistan) is determined by age, employment before migration, and whether the migrant is the head of the household. Furthermore, the paper demonstrates that the longer the duration of migration, the higher the remittances and the larger the ratio of travel costs to income, the lower the remittances. This is because migrants increase the duration of emigration and avoid travel costs to increase remittances. However, migrants with higher monthly income have a lower ratio of travel costs to income and are likely to visit their families more often.

Suggested Citation

  • Sultonov Mirzosaid, 2012. "Determinants of duration of migration: the case of free movement of labour force," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 32(2), pages 1-23.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-12-00482
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.accessecon.com/pubs/EB/2012/Volume32/EB-12-V32-I2-A23.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    duration of migration; determinants; remittances;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F2 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-12-00482. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: John P. Conley (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.