Migration in market and democracy transition

What is it about?

The paper analyzes the determinants of migration decision-making in the context of market and democratic transition in Romania . Using early 1990s internai migration survey, census and population register data, the results from Lisrel path models show that market and democracy value orientation variables are significant determinants of intentions to move, controlling for individual and regional social structural and resource indicators. Similarly, district-level out-migration behavior is directly determined by the political profile of the local area. Results from the total and disaggregated rural and urban models are interpreted through a reform values and characteristics typology of migrants. At least in the early stages of Romanian transition, the results indicate that migration choice behavior was governed by a search for places with greatest opportunities in terms of market and democracy returns. Implications of the results for political system and public policy decision are discussed.

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How migration intentions were shaped by the post-communist transition in an Eastern European Society.Migrat

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