International Labour Migration: a Case from Czech Republic
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Duben, Jan
Abstract
The aim of this work is to construct a model of legal foreign labour immigration from 27 source countries to Czech Republic with panel data. The dataset contains 27 cross-sectional units with time span from 1993 to 2008. Brief overview of migration literature is followed by the discussion of available migration data in Czech Republic and the problems connected. Then empirical model is constructed. Migration is explained here mainly through economic variables such as wage levels and unemployment rates in both, home and source countries. Moreover, additional explanatory variables such as geographical distance and cross-sectional dummies for home countries are used. It turns out that increasing Czech GDP or higher unemployment in source countries increase the number of labour migrants in Czech Republic. On the other hand, the increasing Czech unemployment and increasing source country GDP decrease the motivation for the labour migrants to come.
Subjects
Czech Republic
labour
migration
panel data
Type
thesis
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