I am starting a research that investigates the correlation of the reasons for migration befote to move in retirement and the well-being after the change? Could anyone help me with instruments and literature review.
Many thanks
Lucia Franca is professor at The Graduate Program in Psychology at Universidade Salgado de Oliveira - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Many Thanks Dragos!! I appreciated your kind answer!
Lucia, there is also a theoretical paper about migration that can be applied to your case: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5112403_Migrants%27_Savings_Purchasing_Power_Parity_and_the_Optimal_Duration_of_Migration
Here it is assumed that there are 2 countries: one with low wages and low prices and other with high wages and high prices. There is an incentive to go to work to country with high wages, to save and then to return to the country with low prices and dissave. Some retired people have similar behavior. But there are other non-economic factors like good climate and environment that can influence such a decision. Formally one can introduce them into utility function as well.
Article Migrants' Savings, Purchasing Power Parity, and the Optimal ...
Thanks Yuri for your answer. I will read the article. Actually I am intending to build a scale - Reasons for retirement migration, thus all articles regarding this topic will be important.
Dear Lucia, thank you for the interest. At the moment of writing paper I thought that temporal migration is a more interesting object of study. Now I see that many retired people in Europe buy houses somewhere else (Spain, for example) in order to save on food and to enjoy better climate.
However, like in my model, there is one difficulty. The ratio of prices does not persist over time scales about 10-20 years that are relevant for rational decision about location choice for retirement. Climate argument may be more important. But if too many go to the same place, there is also negative congestion effect. Those ideas are just if you want to write a model in the mathematical spirit of my paper that describes your case of interest.
Hello Yuri. Many thanks for your advices.
I am a Psychologist interested in retirement topic, but it will be the first time I am getting involved in migration and retirement as one of my master students is interested in discovering why so many retirees are moving to a special region in Rio de Janeiro. I live in Rio and some retirees here used to move to quiet cities at the montains (Teresópolis or Petropolis) or to the beach places (Cabo Frio, Iguaba, Araruama, Arraial do Cabo, Rio das Ostras) like some American retirees going to live in Florida in US or as you said some Europeans buying houses in Spain.
In our case, one of the intriguing aspect is that although the retirees had moved in a search of a better standard of life, they complained of some crucial aspects like health system, traffic congestion and the increasing of the cost of living as they did not expect to had this before they moved. We would not examine a specific model but evaluate the reasons they moved - as predictors, and what they think they got after the migration, comparing differences their perception of collective quality of life (i.e. social-economic indicators) of the previous place of residence and the actual one and the impact of these on their psychological well-being. We are prepared to invite about 150 migrant retirees to answer a resarch questionnaire on the next two months. Thanks for your interest. If you want to know more abou our results please let us know and we send to you after finished it.
All the best!
Lucia
Yes, Lucia, I see your focus. People are not too rational. Even if they study all factors at present, they do not know which of them will persist in future. For example, in the case of Spain, it was indeed a cheaper place with good food and climate. So many retired from colder and richer areas in Europe (Germany, UK, Scandinavia) were buying a second house there. However, this behaviour was also driving a housing bubble. Housing prices in coastal areas have triplicated since 1995 till bubble peak in 2008. I have a paper about that bubble studying different factors that have influenced it: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272356140_Dynamics_of_Interest_Rate_and_Spanish_Housing_Markets
Conference Paper Dynamics of Interest Rate and Spanish Housing Markets
HI Yuri,
Just let you know that my student qualified her project here and just started her data collection. I will tell you her progress as soon as possible. Have a great Xmas time!
Best Regards,
LUcia
Lucia, do you mean that your student will write thesis paper on this topic? Good luck for both of you. Merry Christmas!
Best regards, Yuri
Yes Yuri. A Master thesis (dissertation) that I hope she will defend next April-May. Have a wonderful 2017!
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