The Determinants of Immigration From Fiji to New Zealand An Empirical Re-assessment Using the Bounds Testing Approach
Narayan, Paresh Kumar
Smyth, Russell
10.4225/03/5937576e82358
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/The_Determinants_of_Immigration_From_Fiji_to_New_Zealand_An_Empirical_Re-assessment_Using_the_Bounds_Testing_Approach/5084677
This paper re-examines Gani's (1998) findings on the determinants of migrant flows from Fiji to New Zealand through 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.
2017-06-07 01:31:25
2003
monash:2226
1959.1/2226