Try Another Municipality or Leave the Country? A disaggregated approach to determinants of internal migration and emigration for immigrants and natives in Norway: Trinomial logit models with random effects

Abstract

International and internal migration are increasingly analyzed together. We expand existing knowledge by investigating how these migration patterns differ between immigrants and natives in rural and urban parts of Norway, using a trinomial logit model with random effects and a full-population panel data set. Our results show that immigrants are generally more mobile than natives, both within and out of Norway. The propensity to move abroad is lower than the propensity to move to another Norwegian municipality, also for most immigrants – but exceptions exist, for instance for single immigrants aged 35 in the Oslo area without a job. Moreover, while immigrants in less central parts of Norway are often more domestically mobile than those in more central municipalities, the opposite trend is found for native Norwegians, who tend to be more sedentary if they live in less central parts of the country.