The Doctoral School of Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg
is happy to announce and invite you for the following course:

Doctoral Course on Modelling International Migration

By Prof. Michel Beine

Dates:

• Wednesday 7 July : 14h00 – 17h00
• Thursday 8 July : 10h00 – 12H30 / 14h00 – 17h00
• Friday 9 July : 09h30 – 12h00

Registration:

Free but mandatory by email at dsef@uni.lu
Registration deadline: June 20,2021

Course content:

The course will focus on the modelling of migration intentions, a relatively recent type of outcome measure.

The first part will be devoted to the presentation of the migration intentions

• How can we measure migration intentions?
• How does it differ from actual migration movements?
• What are the main determinants of these intentions and how does it differ from findings on actual movements of people?
• Presentation of the Gallup World Poll survey and presentation of its limitation.

The second part will be devoted to more exploratory issues related to the modelling approach :

• Failure to account for the hypothesis of independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) in the modelling of migration intentions (and movements).
• Accounting for violations of IIA within the Random Utility framework: a cross-nested approach.
• Going beyond the RUM model: accounting for attraction effects.