Hoorn, Wout van (2021) Influence of socioeconomic status on settlement location of EU migrants in the Netherlands. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
The population of the Netherlands is ageing, and it will continue to do so for at least another decade. Additionally, the aged-dependency ratio will rise by 5 per cent until 2050. The damage of an ageing population can possibly be limited by migration through increasing the working population. The European Union has created an interesting context for inter European migration. With the ‘borderless’ Europe, migrants can cross borders of the Schengen countries without restraint. This creates an interesting situation and a possible solution for the ageing population of the Netherlands. This quantitative study examines the existence and strength of the relationship between the socioeconomic status and settlement location of immigrants with an EU background living in the Netherlands. Socioeconomic status is defined by income, level of education and occupation. Data from the European Social Survey (ESS) is used to create a multinomial logistic regression model with the settlement location as the dependent variable. The variables which determine socioeconomic status are used as the independent variables. Additionally, the results are controlled for by age and gender of the respondents. The results show that socioeconomic status is only a partial predictor of the settlement location of EU migrants in the Netherlands, as only income affects the settlement location. The model showed that immigrants with low and medium incomes are less likely to live in any other region than the big city compared to immigrants with a high income. The results correspond partly with the existing literature. It was expected that migrants with lower socioeconomic status were more dependent on the network effect, which is the strongest in the big cities.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Remund, A.P.P. |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2021 10:39 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jun 2021 10:39 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3495 |
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