International Migration: An Application of the Urban Location Choice Model

In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 106-120

Abstract

The public choice model of urban residential location offers an opportunity to integrate economic and political models of migration, and thus has broad applicability as a positive model of both individual behavior and national policies relating to international migration. The authors describe the basic economic model of the urban migration process and explore its dynamics. They utilize this model to explain the migratory behavior of individuals and groups and the reactions of national governments, whether "sending" or "receiving" the migrants. Finally, they examine the policy implications of such a model.