Multilateral Resistance to Migration

By Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga. Social Science Research Network, 2013

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The rate of migration observed between two countries does not depend solely on their relative attractiveness, but also on the one of alternative destinations. Following the trade literature, we term the influence exerted by other destinations on bilateral flows as Multilateral Resistance to Migration, and we show how it can be accounted for when estimating the determinants of migration rates in the context of a general individual random utility maximization model. We propose the use of the Common Correlated Effects estimator (Pesaran, 2006) and apply it to high-frequency data on the Spanish immigration boom between 1997 and 2009. Compared to more restrictive estimation strategies developed in the literature, the bias goes in the expected direction: we find a smaller effect of GDP per capita and a larger effect of migration policies on bilateral rates.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Migration and Development: Dissecting the Anatomy of the Mobility Transition (2017, background): “One particular concern in this regard is the potential role of multilateral resistance to migration (MRM) - see [17], which is the observation that the attractiveness of a particular destination country for potential migrants at origin will likely depend upon the relative attractiveness of alternati”
The Cross-country Determinants of Potential and Actual Migration 1 (2014, background): “Examples of this approach can be found in Borjas (1987), Clark et al.”