Modelling immigration flows : an application of the bounds test to Fiji - Australia migration Narayan, Paresh Kumar and Smyth, Russell 2005, Modelling immigration flows : an application of the bounds test to Fiji - Australia migration, Pacific economic bulletin, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 104-116. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Modelling immigration flows : an application of the bounds test to Fiji - Australia migration Author(s) Narayan, Paresh Kumar orcid.org/0000-0001-7934-8146 Smyth, Russell Journal name Pacific economic bulletin Volume number 20 Issue number 2 Start page 104 End page 116 Publisher Asia Pacific Press Place of publication Canberra, A.C.T. Publication date 2005 ISSN 0817-8038 1834-9455 Summary This paper examines the long-run and short-run determinants of migration from Fiji to Australia between 1972 and 2001 using a human capital framework, which is extended to take account of political instability in Fiji. Our main findings are that in the long run the real wage differential and political instability in Fiji are the main determinants. In the short run, there is some evidence that the wage differential and transport costs are important factors, but this finding is not robust across all specifications. Lagged migration and political instability are the most important determinants in the short run. Language eng Field of Research 140211 Labour Economics Socio Economic Objective 970114 Expanding Knowledge in Economics HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30024730 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Business and Law School of Accounting, Economics and Finance   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 02 Mar 2010, 11:30:21 EST Thu, 11 Mar 2010, 13:44:20 EST Thu, 11 Mar 2010, 13:45:12 EST Fri, 12 Mar 2010, 11:17:23 EST Mon, 22 Mar 2010, 13:21:17 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 14:43:12 EST Fri, 28 Nov 2014, 14:55:56 EST Fri, 28 Nov 2014, 14:58:01 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 2 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 868 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 02 Mar 2010, 11:30:21 EST