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• Γεωργιάδης, Θωμάς

Since more than one-fifth of the Albanian population lives abroad at any given point in time, the present study uses information obtained from Wave 2 of the Albanian Living Standard Measurement Survey (ALSMS) from spring 2003, in order to investigate the covariates that determine whether an individual considers migrating abroad from Albania. To be specific, the main interest of this research focuses on the impact of age, gender, education, household welfare, employment status and other selected factors on considering migration. An important contribution of the present study is the investigation of the impact of previous migration experiences on the likelihood to migrate internationally from Albania in the future. Evidence from the empirical analysis suggests that those who migrated abroad during the past twelve years are more likely to migrate compared to those who didn’t migrate.

• Economics and Business
• Sociology

• Migrations of nations
• Demography
• Employment (Economic theory)
• Statistics

Albania, migration, demography, employment, living conditions, ordered pro-bit econometric analysis

Περιέχει παράρτημα πινάκων και βιβλιογραφία, This article has been written while the author was participating in a MA programme in Development Economics, University of Sussex, UK. I am grateful to Dr Julie Litchfield for supervising this research. I did receive helpful comments also from Dr Andriana Castaldo and Prof. Antigone Lyberaki. Finally, I would like to express my appreciation to Prof. Theodosios Palaskas and to Prof. Matthew Lambrinidis concerning an earlier draft of this paper.