Personality traits, migration intentions, and cultural distance

Didier Fouarge; Merve Nezihe Özer; Philipp Seegers

doi:10.1111/pirs.12468

Personality traits, migration intentions, and cultural distance

Didier Fouarge, Merve Nezihe Özer^*, Philipp Seegers

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Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between Big Fivepersonality traits and individuals' intentions to migrate incountries that vary in their culture. Using data collectedfrom university students in Germany, we find that extraver-sion and openness are positively associated with migrationintentions, while agreeableness, conscientiousness, andemotional stability negatively relate to migration intentions.Openness positively and extraversion negatively relate tothe willingness to move to culturally distant countries aftercontrolling for geographic distance and economic differ-ences between countries. Extravert and conscientiousindividuals are less likely to prefer linguistically distantcountries contrary to agreeable individuals.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2425–2454
Number of pages	30
Journal	Papers in Regional Science
Volume	98
Issue number	6
Early online date	2 Jul 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12468
Publication status	Published - Dec 2019

Keywords

Big Five personality traits
cultural distance
destination choice
migration intention
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
NATIONAL CULTURE
GRADUATE MIGRATION
BEHAVIOR
DIMENSIONS
PREDICTORS
PSYCHOLOGY
SELECTION
HOFSTEDE
MOBILITY

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Personality traits, migration intentions, and cultural distance
Fouarge, D., Özer, M. N. & Seegers, P., 2019, Bonn: IZA, 38 p. (IZA Discussion Paper Series; No. 12444).
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