Migration and aspirations – are migrants trapped on a hedonic treadmill?
By M. Czaika, Marc Vothknecht. 2014
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Based on longitudinal information from two waves of the Indonesian Family and LifeSurvey (IFLS) in 2000 and 2007, we find evidence that migrants are self-selectedalong higher individual aspirations acquired (or, inherited) beforemigration. About 70 per cent of aspiration differentials can be explained by factorssuch as young age, good education, or superior socio-economic background, while theresidual seems to be linked to an individual pre-disposition for higher aspirations.However, despite the fact that migration is economically beneficial for mostmigrants, the migration experience itself seems to further increase economicaspirations, hereby trapping migrants on a ‘hedonic treadmill’.JEL classification: D03; J61; R23
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- The Cross-country Determinants of Potential and Actual Migration 1 (2014, methodology): “, 2009; Becerra, 2012; Creighton, 2013; Czaika and Vothknecht, 2014) have recognized the importance of analyzing the factors influencing the aspiration to migrate in specific countries and contexts. Some of these studies have explicitly taken a two-step approach, analyzing (1) aspirations and (2) ab”
- Understanding Immobility: Moving Beyond the Mobility Bias in Migration Studies (2020, methodology): “For example, Czaika and Vothknecht (2014) argue that migration is both a cause and a consequence of higher aspirations; even when accounting for factors such as age, education, and socio-economic background, migrants show higher aspirations than their nonmigrant counterparts.”