Working Papers,
University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper exploits a dispersal policy for refugee immigrants to

estimate the importance of local and regional factors for refugees’ location

preferences.

The main results of a mixed proportional hazard competing risks

model are that placed refugees react to high regional unemployment

and lack of a local immigrant population by migrating to large municipalities.

Lack of local fellow countrymen, however, increases the

exit rate to medium-sized as well as large municipalities. This finding

is likely to be a result of the dispersal policy. Finally, refugees react

strongly to assignment to small municipalities by migrating mainly to

medium-sized municipalities.

Keywords: Location Preferences; Internal Migration; Immigrants; Dispersal Policies; Duration Analysis

JEL-codes: J15; R15

84 pages, September 2, 2005

Note: Published as “Determinants of Recent Immigrants’ Location Choices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence”. Journal of Population Economics 2009, 22(1): 145-174

Full text files

05-2_apd.pdf  

Download statistics

• University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics
• Home page for this series

Questions (including download problems) about the papers in this series should be directed to Helle Vinbaek Stenholt ()
Report other problems with accessing this service to Sune Karlsson ().

RePEc:hhs:aareco:2005_002This page generated on 2024-09-13 22:14:08.