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The determinants of immigration from Fiji to New Zealand : AN empirical reassessment using the bounds testing approach

Narayan, Paresh Kumar and Smyth, Russell 2003, The determinants of immigration from Fiji to New Zealand : AN empirical reassessment using the bounds testing approach, International migration, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 33-60.

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Title The determinants of immigration from Fiji to New Zealand : AN empirical reassessment using the bounds testing approach
Author(s) Narayan, Paresh Kumar
Smyth, Russell
Journal name International migration
Volume number 41
Issue number 5
Start page 33
End page 60
Publisher Wiley - Blackwell
Place of publication Oxford, England
Publication date 2003-12
ISSN 0020-7985
1468-2435
Summary This article re-examines Gani's (1998) findings on the determinants of migrant flows from Fiji to New Zealand by employing the bounds testing procedure to cointegration, within an autoregressive distributive lag framework. The main findings are that in the long run all variables are statistically insignificant, although correctly signed with the exception of the unemployment differential. In the short run, in sharp contrast to Gani's (1998) findings, political instability is consistently the most important determinant of migration flows while the standard of living and real wage differentials are statistically insignificant across all specifications.
Language eng
Field of Research 140211 Labour Economics
HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2003, IOM
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30024713

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: School of Accounting, Economics and Finance
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