The results show that individuals prefer larger regions, both in terms of population as well as in terms of the area, although the latter coefficient is rather small. They also indicate that, as expected, a higher unemployment rate decreases while a higher income increases the probability of moving to a region...A higher score of the MIPEX Labour Market Access Index increases the probability of moving to a region: countries with more liberal rules governing migrant's access to the labor market as well as to active labor market policies thus attract a—ceteris paribus—higher share of migrants.
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Welfare Magnets, Taxation and the Location Decisions of Migrants to the EU
Thomas Huddleston
Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
Thomas Huddleston is a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Group, a European think-and-do-tank. He coordinates MPG’s research for European cooperation on national integration policies, including the second and third editions of the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) (published in February 2011) and the third edition of the European Commission’s Handbook on Integration.
