The Impact of Migration Flows on Well-Being of Elderly Natives and Migrants: Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing
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The Impact of Migration Flows on Well‑Being of Elderly Natives and Migrants: Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe Sacit Hadi Akdede1 · Eleftherios Giovanis2 Accepted: 21 September 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Immigration has been a long-standing contentious issue across the globe. According to a recent report published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 2015, the majority of people in the Northern and Western European countries report positive perceptions towards immigration compared to those of the Southern European countries. However, little is known about how migration affects the well-being of old aged people. The main aim of this study is to examine the association between net migration rates and the subjective and objective well-being of old-aged natives in Europe, using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe during the period of 2004–2017. The estimates will also take place across different regions and across various groups such as gender, age, education level, and first- and second-generation migrants. In addition to the conventional methods, such as the ordinary least squares (OLS) used to analyse the relevant associations, we also apply an instrumental variables (IV) approach to account for possible endogeneity in migration. The results are mixed as we find a positive impact of migration on the subjective well-being and wages of natives and second-generation immigrants in the Northern/ Western and Eastern European countries, and a negative impact in the Southern region. Keywords Employment · Life satisfaction · Instrumental variables · Migration · Objective and psychological well-being · Wages
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s1120 5-020-02503-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Eleftherios Giovanis [email protected]; [email protected] Sacit Hadi Akdede [email protected] 1
Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Izmir University of Bakircay, Menemen, İzmir, Turkey
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Department of Public Finance, Nazilli Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Aydin Adnan Menderes University, Cumhuriyet, 09800 İsabeyli, Nazilli, Aydın, Turkey
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1 Introduction International migration, especially over the recent years, has reached to the top of the national and global policy agendas. The number of international immigrants in 1960 was 75 million across the globe. In 2000, 173 million people were classified as international migrants, reaching 250 million in 2017. In the same year, almost 67 percent of the international migrants were living in only 20 countries, and Europe was the continent hosting the second largest number of international migrants following Asia (United Nations 2017). Although Europeans have been travelling for hundreds of years through conquests, colonization, and settlements in other lands around
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