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Yönetim ve Ekonomi Araştırmaları Dergisi, vol.17, no.1, pp.281-296, 2019 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Although it mostly includes economic factors in its origin, the statement of “the removal of intercountry
borders”, included in the definition of globalization, also includes inter-country human
movement, which makes it a social concept. Migration is a factor that causes significant changes in the
socio-cultural and economic structures of the migration-receiving country. Accordingly, in order to be
able to explain the economic effects of globalization concept, it becomes important to identify how this
concept affects labor markets of countries.
The effects of globalization on migration received by OECD countries were attempted to be
explained from this perspective in the study by investigating the interaction of migration concept,
effective on labor structures of countries, with globalization.
In this study, the relationship between globalization and migration in the period of 2000-2014 for
selected 30 OECD countries was investigated with Dumitrescu and Hurlin panel causality test. An
empirical results showed that there exists significant two-way causality relationships between economic
and social globalization and migrants while, empirical results showed that there is a significant oneway
causality relationship from migrants to political globalization.
Key Words: Globalization, Migration, Panel Causality.