Mobility And Migration

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Introduction Labor mobility and migration is a typical form of population movements over centuries (Geréb, 2008). Researchers highlight that migration is both a driving force of globalization but also the consequence thereof (Lipták, 2015; Boswell, 2003). However, mobility and migration is a global challenge, the understanding of the reasons and patterns require local investigations due to the differences in national history, geographical location or economic development. The wide range of national-level analysis in the literature promote the integration of new considerations into local research efforts. Whereas, the multifaceted and complex nature of factors at play in the mobility processes, especially the difficulties with creating a unified …show more content…

Sik and Simonovits (2002) estimated the level of mobility at 6% of the Hungarian population in the near future based on a panel-sample. Kapitány and Rorh (2013) calculated that 7.4% of the 18-49-year-old people live abroad. Sik and Szeitl (2016) concluded that migration and mobility potential have a significant increase in the 1990s and 2000s. Although there was a peak value of 19% in 2012, thereafter the potential fell back to the level of the middle of the 2000s (Figure …show more content…

Hautzinger et al., 2014). The differences in wages between the source and the target countries are the most important factor which will explain migration at the macro level. Classic models have the assumption that when these wages have equalized, migration will cease (Wallace and Stola, *). At the micro level, people compare the costs and benefits of moving in order to enhance their personal wealth (Massey et al., 1998). Besides the financial issues, many others must be considered. Recent interest has by now gone beyond the level of legal and administrative issues, the role of individual abilities and competences is decisive (Rédei, 2007). Rudzitis (1991) suggest a raising attention to new dominant factors like climate, access to services and the quality and quantity of the services. However, religious and environmental are not typical in Hungary, but those have a great influence on mobility worldwide (Black, 1998; Vág, 2010*. Therefore, mobility cannot be accounted for on the macro-level either by only economic, religious, political or even environmental reasons, but a complex system of causes and effects is at play, which is not independent of place or

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