HUBER, Peter and Štěpán MIKULA. Social capital and willingness to migrate in post-communist countries. Empirica. DORDRECHT: SPRINGER, 2019, vol. 46, No 1, p. 31-59. ISSN 0340-8744. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10663-018-9417-7.
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Original name Social capital and willingness to migrate in post-communist countries
Authors HUBER, Peter and Štěpán MIKULA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Empirica, DORDRECHT, SPRINGER, 2019, 0340-8744.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50202 Applied Economics, Econometrics
Country of publisher Netherlands
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 0.890
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14560/19:00108872
Organization unit Faculty of Economics and Administration
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10663-018-9417-7
UT WoS 000457717200003
Keywords in English Migration; Social capital; Transition countries
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
We analyse the correlation of various measures of social capital with the willingness to migrate in 28 post-communist and five western European comparison countries using the Life in Transition Survey. Memberships in clubs and civil society organisations are substantially lower in post-communist countries that in the Western European countries this is mainly due to the cohorts socialised prior to political reforms in the 1990's. Differences in endowments with this measure of social capital explain around 2.5 percentage points of the 9-11 percentage point difference in the willingness to migrate between the post-communist and comparison countries. Differences in contacts to friends and family, by contrast, contribute only little to explaining these differences. Furthermore, despite clear cohort effects in endowments with social capital between cohorts socialized during and after communist rule, there is no clear evidence of such cohort effects in the impact of social capital on the willingness to migrate.
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