Abstract
Motives for migration should play a major role in the development of achievement motivation of migrants, which, in turn, should influence economic success. For a sample of guest-workers in Austria it is shown that the simple distinction of economic and non-economic, i.e. family or political motives, does not yield convincing results for the explanation of wages. Economic motivation has to be further differentiated into search for success and fear of failure types. Immigrants with optimistic economic motivation are able to command wages more than 10% higher than individuals migrating for political reasons.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 269-284 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of Economic Psychology |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 1994 |
Fields of science
- 405002 Agricultural economics
- 502 Economics
- 502001 Labour market policy
- 502002 Labour economics
- 502003 Foreign trade
- 502009 Corporate finance
- 502010 Public finance
- 502012 Industrial management
- 502013 Industrial economics
- 502018 Macroeconomics
- 502020 Market research
- 502021 Microeconomics
- 502025 Econometrics
- 502027 Political economy
- 502039 Structural policy
- 502042 Environmental economics
- 502046 Economic policy
- 502047 Economic theory
- 504014 Gender studies
- 506004 European integration
- 507016 Regional economy
- 303010 Health economics
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