TY - JOUR
T1 - Some empirical evidence on the determinants of immigration from Fiji to New Zealand
T2 - 1970-94
AU - Gani, Azmat
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - This paper formulates and tests a model for migration from Fiji to New Zealand within the human capital framework using time-series data from 1970-94. The error-correction model, which appears to adequately characterise the data generation process, reveals that wage and unemployment differentials are statistically significant variables explaining permanent and long-term migration from Fiji to New Zealand. Equally important are the findings for the living standard differential between Fiji and New Zealand and Fiji’s political instability, while exhibiting the correct signs on their coefficients, these are not statistically significant variables in explaining permanent and long-term migration. The cost variable did not prove to be important in explaining migration from Fiji to New Zealand.
AB - This paper formulates and tests a model for migration from Fiji to New Zealand within the human capital framework using time-series data from 1970-94. The error-correction model, which appears to adequately characterise the data generation process, reveals that wage and unemployment differentials are statistically significant variables explaining permanent and long-term migration from Fiji to New Zealand. Equally important are the findings for the living standard differential between Fiji and New Zealand and Fiji’s political instability, while exhibiting the correct signs on their coefficients, these are not statistically significant variables in explaining permanent and long-term migration. The cost variable did not prove to be important in explaining migration from Fiji to New Zealand.
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U2 - 10.1080/00779959809544282
DO - 10.1080/00779959809544282
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85011163925
SN - 0077-9954
VL - 32
SP - 57
EP - 69
JO - New Zealand Economic Papers
JF - New Zealand Economic Papers
IS - 1
ER -