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Rationality of migration

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Economics
dc.contributor.kuauthorTunalı, Fehmi İnsan
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Administrative Sciences and Economics
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T23:23:08Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.description.abstractThe paradigm of a rational individual acting on the earnings-enhancing benefits of migration is subjected to statistical scrutiny, using data from Turkey. Results with robust selectivity correction support the rationality hypothesis: Both migrants and nonmigrants chose the option in which they had comparative advantage. However, the estimated gain from moving is negative for a substantial portion of migrants, whereas a minority realize very high returns. This suggests that migration is a lottery: Individuals are willing to invest in a proposition that has a high probability of yielding negative returns because of the potential for a very large payoff.
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dc.description.issue4
dc.description.openaccessNO
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.volume41
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1468-2354.00089
dc.identifier.issn0020-6598
dc.identifier.quartileQ2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-0347698476
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2354.00089
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/11169
dc.identifier.wos90081000004
dc.keywordsLimited dependent variables
dc.keywordsSelf-selection
dc.keywordsSimple estimator
dc.keywordsChoice models
dc.keywordsJob search
dc.keywordsIdentification
dc.keywordsHeterogeneity
dc.keywordsEarnings
dc.keywordsMarket
dc.keywordsImpact
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniv Penn
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Economic Review
dc.subjectEconomics
dc.titleRationality of migration
dc.typeJournal Article
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