Strings attached: The impediments to migration

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  • INSTITUTE:
    UNU-MERIT
    PUBLISHER:
    Boekenplan
    TITLE:
    Strings attached: The impediments to migration
    AUTHORS:
    by Hagen-Zanker, Jessica Sabine, Melissa Siegel and Chris de Neubourg
    PUB DATE:
    2013•12•20
    COPYRIGHT YEAR:
    2008

    This paper details a theoretical framework to explain the impediments to
    migration. The paper argues that actual migration as a household
    livelihood strategy is impeded by the constraints imposed by the
    households’ access to the institutions and the assets needed for
    migration within the welfare pentagon(s) of the household. The Welfare
    Pentagon embodies the five central institutions that households could
    use to assuage needs in a given society (family, markets, social
    networks, membership institutions and public authorities). Using data
    from Albania and Moldova, we then test the model predictions
    empirically. Utilizing a probit model for the decision to not migrate at
    the household level, we find strong support for the Welfare Pentagon
    framework. We find that having access to different parts of the Welfare
    Pentagon makes a difference for migration. We find that particularly the
    family, market and social network variables play a considerable role in
    the possibility for migration.

    Appears in: MGSoG Working Paper Series (discontinued)
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