migration_panel: Determinants of International Migration in the European Union
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migration_panel

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Determinants of International Migration in the European Union

Description

The dataset contains bilateral migration and its economic determinants for 23 European Union countries over the period 1995–2020. Each observation represents a country pair in a given 5 year period, resulting in 353 unique country pairs and four periods (the first period is utilized for lagged data only).

The countries included are: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom

The dataset was used in: Afonso, Aves, Beck (2025), Drivers of migration flows in the European Union: Earnings or unemployment?, International Labour Review, 164(2), 1-23. doi: 10.16995/ilr.18845

Usage

data(migration_panel)

Format

A data frame with 1012 rows and 14 variables:

Year_0: Column indication observation period.
Pair_ID: Column indication country pair.
Migration: The absolute value of the net migration flows scaled by the sum of the population of a given pair of countries.
MigrationLAG: The absolute value of the net migration flows scaled by the sum of the population of a given pair of countries lagged by one period (5 years).
Unempl: The absolute value of the difference in unemployment rates, averaged over the 5-year period.
Earn: The absolute value of the difference in net earnings expressed in PPP, averaged over the 5-year period.
Tax: The absolute value of the difference in mean income tax, averaged over the 5-year period.
Social: The absolute value of the difference in mean social benefits per person, averaged over the 5-year period.
LNDGEO: A natural logarithm of the distance between the capital of a given pair of countries based on the shortest route.
Temp: The absolute value of the difference in mean annual temperature, averaged over the 5-year period.
HC: The absolute value of the difference in the human capital index (Barro and Lee 2013), averaged over the 5-year period.
GOV: The absolute value of the difference in government spending share of GDP, averaged over the 5-year period.
Gini: The absolute value of the difference in the Gini coefficient between a pair of countries, averaged over the 5-year period.
FER: The absolute value of the difference in the fertility rate between a pair of countries, averaged over the 5-year period.
Corruption: The absolute difference in the value of control of corruption measure from the Worldwide Governance Indicator, averaged over the 5-year period.
Crime: The absolute value of the difference in the number of intentional homicides per 1 000 inhabitants, averaged over the 5-year period.