ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF MIGRATION IN MALAYSIA

第一届和第二届马来西亚家庭生活会议收集的回顾性数据 调查提供了一个独特机会来研究贫穷国家的移徙模式， 但发展迅速的经济。 马来西亚男性的移民行为， 妇女将被描述，注意生命周期模式， 移民和其他事件的时间，如教育和婚姻。 我们将评估一系列静态和动态迁移模型， 为了检验试图解释移民行为的经济假设。 除了个人特征，我们还将确定 其他（扩大的）家庭成员的特点影响移徙 概率 社区特征的作用，包括政府 方案，也将进行研究。 在动态模型的背景下，我们将 允许学习和研究移民如何对新信息作出反应。 我们将 还研究移徙者与其原籍家庭之间的资源转移。 马来西亚家庭生活调查的数据非常丰富，也非常复杂。 我们会把在 第一波和第二波。 在第二次浪潮中， 在最初的家庭中收集最多三个孩子。 通过匹配 这些PANEL家庭，连同他们的孩子的家庭，我们 我将开发一个独特的数据库，其中包括两个方面的回顾性信息， 移民及其原籍家庭。 该数据库与新的 在第二波中绘制的样本，将使我们能够更好地了解 动态经济中的移民机制。

Retrospective data collected in the first and second Malaysia Family Life Survey provide a unique opportunity to study migration patterns in a poor, but rapidly developing, economy. Migration behavior of Malaysian men and women will be described, paying attention to life-cycle patterns of migration and the timing of other events such as education and marriage. We will estimate a series of static and dynamic models of migration in order to test economic hypotheses which seek to explain migration behavior. In addition to individual characteristics, we will determine whether characteristics of other (extended) household members affect migration probabilities. The role of community characteristics, including government programs, will also be studied. In the context of dynamic models, we will permit learning and study how migrants respond to new information. We will also study resource transfers between migrants and their origin households. The Malaysian Family Life Survey data are very rich and also very complex. We will match information on the panel households who were enumerated in both the first and second waves. In the second wave, information was also collected on up to three children in the original households. By matching these PANEL households, together with the households of their CHILDREN, we will develop a unique database with retrospective information on both migrants and their origin households. This database, together with the NEW sample drawn in the second wave, will enable us to better understand the mechanics of migration in a dynamic economy.