Abstract

Motives behind internal migration reported by internal migrants often differ from those assumed by standard economic and social theories. This research aims to narrow the gap between the stated motives and those suggested by human capital models. It relates the net migration rates by specific motives to socioeconomic and sociodemographic variables at the LAU 1 level in the period 1997–2021 in Slovakia. This research establishes that most of the stated motives behind internal migration (housing and family) differ from those assumed by human capital theories. This finding is valid for motives stated at the proximal level. The analysis of migration rates and housing supply indicates a substantial concentration of interdistrict migrants in suburban districts of affluent metropolitan regions. This finding resonates with assumptions on the latent importance of employment and income for internal migration.

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Title
Geography of migration motives: Matching migration motives with socioeconomic data
Author
Baláž, Vladimír 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Lichner, Ivan 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Jeck, Tomáš 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  Institute for Forecasting, Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia 
2  Institute of Economic Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia 
Pages
141-152
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
De Gruyter Poland
ISSN
12108812
e-ISSN
21996202
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2023-0013
ProQuest document ID
2873410963
Copyright
© 2023. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.