The Phenomenon Of Immigrants’ Clusters Formation: Evidence From Selected Oecd Countries

  • Wadim Strielkowski harles University, Prague
Keywords: International Migration, Economic Of Migration, Immigrants’ Clustering, OECD Countries

Abstract

This analyzes the problematic of immigrants’ clusters formation. Immigrants clustering, or spatial concentration of immigrants from the same region, can be observed in many countries that are net receiver of migration flows. An econometric model is drawn to see the interdependency between the number of recent immigrants and the stocks of foreign population at a given country; this is tested against the alternative hypothesis of the dominating influence of economic factors on migration. Using the data from selected OECD countries we find an empirical verification of immigrants’ clustering both for the whole volume of foreign immigrants’ inflow and by selected nationalities.

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2011-12-23
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