THE CAUSAL EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL GLOBALIZATION ON MIGRANTS: A PANEL DATA ANALYSIS FOR SELECTED OECD COUNTRIES


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Yönetim ve Ekonomi Araştırmaları Dergisi, cilt.17, sa.1, ss.281-296, 2019 (Hakemli Dergi)

Özet

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.