Migration Patterns of Serbian and Bosnia and Herzegovina Migrants in Austria: Causes and Consequences
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A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Landesmann, Michael; Mara, Isilda; Vidovic, Hermine Research Report Migration Patterns of Serbian and Bosnia and Herzegovina Migrants in Austria: Causes and Consequences wiiw Research Report, No. 389 Provided in Cooperation with: The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) - Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw) Suggested Citation: Landesmann, Michael; Mara, Isilda; Vidovic, Hermine (2013) : Migration Patterns of Serbian and Bosnia and Herzegovina Migrants in Austria: Causes and Consequences, wiiw Research Report, No. 389, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), Vienna This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/204161 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. 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The survey analysed in this study was con- ducted by the Austrian Gallup Institute. Serbian and Bosnia and Herzegovina Migrants in Research for this paper was financed by the Jubilee Fund of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Project Austria: Causes and Con- No. 14117). sequences Contents Abstract..................................................................................................................................... i Executive summary ................................................................................................................. ii 1. Introduction and motivation of research .......................................................................... 1 2. Background information ................................................................................................... 3 3. Demographic and economic characteristics of Serbian migrants versus other groups of migrants in Austria .................................................................................. 6 4. New insights from the recent survey on Serbian and BiH migrants in Austria ............. 12 4.1 Survey data and methodology ............................................................................. 12 4.2 The design of the questionnaire .......................................................................... 14 4.3 Socio-demographic characteristics of Serbian and BiH migrants in Austria ....... 14 4.4 Migration patterns ................................................................................................ 17 4.5 Education level and human capital formation in the destination country ............ 21 4.6 Employment and occupation in the destination country ...................................... 24 4.7 Job and qualification relationship ......................................................................... 28 4.8 Income and remittances....................................................................................... 29 4.9 Social access and integration issues, formal and informal ................................. 32 5. Return migration ............................................................................................................ 36 5.1 The profile of permanent migrants versus temporary migrants .......................... 36 5.2 Migration purposes and outcomes: permanent versus temporary migrants ...... 38 5.3 Labour market performance: permanent versus temporary migrants ................ 42 6. Empirical analysis of permanent versus temporary migration and labour market mismatch ................................................................................................ 49 6.1 Methodology ......................................................................................................... 50 6.2 Empirical specifications ........................................................................................ 52 7. Estimation results ........................................................................................................... 55 8. Main findings and conclusion ........................................................................................ 61 References ............................................................................................................................ 64 Annex A1 ............................................................................................................................... 66 Annex A2 ............................................................................................................................... 83 Annex A3 ............................................................................................................................... 89 List of Tables and Figures Table 1 Social and economic characteristics: BiH migrants, and Serbian migrants before and after visa liberalisation ..................................................................................... 15 Table 2 Migration plans, causes and outcomes of the migration experience: BiH migrants, and Serbian migrants before and after visa liberalisation ......................... 17 Table 3 Education, qualification and human capital formation abroad .......................................... 23 Table 4 Employment features and occupation before and during migration ................................. 24 Table 5 Job and qualification relationship ....................................................................................... 29 Table 6 Income, remittances ........................................................................................................... 30 Table 7 Social integration aspects .................................................................................................. 33 Table 8 Social integration aspects II ............................................................................................... 35 Table 9 Basic characteristics of potential permanent stayers versus potential return migrants .................................................................................................... 36 Table 10 Causes and outcomes of the migration decision: permanent versus returnees .............. 39 Table 11 Human capital formation in the destination country, potential permanent stayers versus returnees .................................................................. 43 Table 12 Occupational skill level, potential permanent stayers versus returnees ........................... 46 Table 13 ISCO-88 major groups and skill level ................................................................................ 47 Table 14 ISCED – education skill level ............................................................................................. 82 Table 15 Estimation results by education ISCED – occupation skill ISCO-88 matching ................ 83 Table 16 Estimation results by education ISCED – occupation skill ISCO-88 matching, permanent stayers versus returnees ................................................................................ 84 Table 17 Estimation results – seemingly unrelated bivariate probit regression, education-occupational skill matching, migration plans .................................................... 85 Table 18 Estimation results, seemingly unrelated regression, self assessment of occupational matching, migration plans ........................................................................ 87 Figure 1 Natives and migrants by age group, 2008 .......................................................................... 6 Figure 2 Natives and migrants by education level, 2008................................................................... 7 Figure 3 Employment status, Serbian migrants versus natives and other groups of migrants, 2008 ..................................................................................... 8 Figure 4 Employment status, Serbian migrants versus natives and other group of migrants, 2011 ...................................................................................... 9 Figure 5 Occupation of Serbian migrants versus other groups of migrants, 2011 ......................... 10