Emigration; Inequality in Incomes or Raising the Quality of Life
Subject Areas : Applied Economics
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Keywords: Emigration, quality of life, Distribution of Income, Gravitational Model, Analysis of Main Factors, Weighted Least Squares Method,
Abstract :
In this study through the application of econometric methods, the aim is to investigate the motives of emigration in two cases: economic and non-economic motives. Accordingly, first two non-economic indicators are presented for the quality of life with focus on the literature of the subject for all provinces are introduced in the country in the year 1385 and then using the analytical approach to describe the main factors and calculating the disturbance factors, an econometric model is estimated and finally the ranking of provinces on the basis of two indexes of the quality of life is offered. Then using the gravitational model approach, we have investigated who the variables of income ratio of the destination province over the original province, the income inequality ratio in the destination province over the original province, the destination between the two province, the neighborhood of them, the population of the original province and the destination province, the ratio of non-economic quality of life index in the original province over the destination province and the ratio of geographic non-economic quality of life index in the original province over the destination province have affected emigration. This study has been done by using cross-section approach and econometric software-Eviews. The econometric model has been estimated for 870 observations through the weighted least squares method and its results show that income motives have a significant positive effect and non-economic indexes as non-economic motives have a negative effect.