A Gravity Model of Immigration

Authors

Joshua Lewer, Bradley University, Peoria, ILFollow
Hendrik Van den Berg, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

4-2008

Comments

Published in Economics Letters 99:1 (April 2008), pp. 164-167; doi 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.06.019 Copyright © 2007 Elsevier B.V. Used by permission.

Abstract

This paper develops a gravity model of immigration. Tests of the model using panel data for 16 OECD countries for 1991–2000 confirm the model’s high explanatory power, and examples illustrate its usefulness for testing other hypothesized determinants of immigration.