| By: |
Ali T. Akarca (Department of Economics (mc 144), University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA.);
Aysit Tansel (Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey, Institute for Study of Labor (IZA), P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany, and Economic Research Forum (ERF) Cairo,) |
| Abstract: |
Antalya and Muğla provinces located in southwestern Turkey have emerged as new
magnets for internal migration in the country. Socio-economic, demographic and
labor market characteristics of immigrants coming to these two provinces from
various regions are studied to uncover the reasons fueling their moves. This
is accomplished through an analysis of descriptive statistics, and an analysis
of a gravity model estimated. Differences and similarities between immigrants
coming to these two provinces and those going to other migrant magnets,
between immigrants and natives in Antalya and Muğla, and among immigrants
coming to the two provinces from various origins are noted. What distinguishes
Antalya and Muğla from other migrant-drawing provinces is that they attract
some retirees and university students as well and their immigrants
participating in the labor force are attracted mainly by jobs created in the
sectors related to tourism, either directly or indirectly, rather than
industry. Immigrants from different origins exhibit different characteristics
and tend to specialize in different types of jobs. However, as other migrant
flows, those directed at Antalya and Muğla are affected by distance adversely
and by unemployment differential, past migration and population size at
origin, favorably. |