ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF MIGRATION IN MALAYSIA

马来西亚第一和第二家庭生活中的回顾资料 调查为研究贫困人口的移徙模式提供了一个独特的机会， 但发展迅速的是经济。马来西亚男性的移民行为和 将描述女性，关注女性的生命周期模式 移民和其他事件的时间安排，如教育和婚姻。 我们将估计一系列静态和动态的移民模型 以检验试图解释移民行为的经济假说。 除了个人特征外，我们还将确定 其他(扩大的)家庭成员的特征影响移民 概率。社区特征的作用，包括政府 计划，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对新信息的反应。我们会 还研究移民与其原籍家庭之间的资源转移。 马来西亚家庭生活调查数据非常丰富，也非常复杂。 我们将匹配被点算的小组住户的信息 第一波和第二波都是。在第二波浪潮中，信息也被 收集了原始家庭中最多三个孩子的数据。通过匹配 这些小组家庭，连同他们孩子的家庭，我们 将开发一个独特的数据库，其中包含关于这两个项目的追溯信息 移民及其原籍家庭。该数据库与新的 在第二波中抽取的样本，将使我们更好地了解 在充满活力的经济中的移民机制。

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.