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Do Non-Economic Quality of Life Factors Drive Immigration?
Joshua J. Lewer Bradley University Gail Pacheco Auckland University of Technology - School of Business and Economics Stephanié Rossouw affiliation not provided to SSRN IZA Discussion Paper No. 4385 Abstract: This paper contributes to the immigration literature by generating two unique non-economic quality of life (QOL) indices and testing their role on recent migration patterns. Applying the generated quality of life indices in conjunction with other independent welfare measures to an extended gravity model of immigration for 16 OECD destination countries from 1991 to 2000 suggests an insignificant role for QOL in the immigration process. The panel results suggest that other economic variables such as the stock of immigrants from the source country already living in the OECD destination country, population size, relative incomes, and geographic factors all significantly drive the flow of immigration for the sample.
Keywords: immigration, quality of life, gravity model JEL Classifications: F22, C51, D63 Working Paper SeriesDate posted: October 15, 2009 ; Last revised: October 15, 2009Suggested CitationContact Information
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