A távolság és az iWiW közösségi oldal kapcsolathálózatának összefüggései a magyarországi belföldi vándorlással
Correlations between distance and the personal connections on the iWiW social network with internal migration in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: Our research focuses on the role of social networks in Hungarian internal migration. We examine the influence of online social networks and that of the distance between settlements on the choice of destination. The network effects appear in our model as additional push and pull factors for the individual beside the infrastructural and economic characteristics of the municipalities, and we expect them to modify the impact ofdistance on migration. We analyzed administrative data on migration (source and destination matrix) and settlement characteristics. The effect of social networks has been measured by the user-user connections between two settlements on iWiW social network site. Our results, based on fixed-effect poisson regression models, show that the choice of destination is associated with the network effects. Most of the relocations take place within short and medium distances, and within this, migrants prefer destinations that are more densely connected to their place of origin on the social network site.

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