WIC COLLOQUIUM

Anna Katharina Raggl, Österreichische Nationalbank

The Role of the Quality of Public Services in Shaping Migration Intentions in CESEE

February Tuesday 11th, 10:00-11:00

Abstract

In Central, Eastern and Southeastern European (CESEE) countries, emigration has been high in the past, and, especially in the non-EU CESEE countries, net migration rates are still negative and sizeable. Migration can have a substantial impact on the age and skill profile of a society, which in turn is key for economic development and fiscal sustainability. Therefore, it is of particular importance to understand the motives for individual migration intentions. Building on earlier studies of migration intentions in CESEE, we use the 2018-wave of the OeNB Euro Survey to study in particular the link between individual migration intentions and the satisfaction with the provision of public services – infrastructure, education, health, etc. in ten CESEE countries. We employ (Polychoric) Principal Component Analysis, (P)PCA, to reduce the dimensionality of the data, and instrumental variable techniques to estimate the effect of the satisfaction with public services on migration intentions.

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