The puzzling differences in destination locations of the two groups of migrants is of interest in its own right as it may shed new light on migrant decision-making.
Interprovincial migrant decisions may be influenced by factors like the location of home provinces (via migration costs or family, friend locations) driving Western and Atlantic source migrants to stay within their region.
Moreover, the existence of transnational social networks may ultimately have a strong impact on the migrants' decision to be illegal or not.
As the analysis firstly suggests, per capita differences in destination and origin countries affect volume of migrants positively, meaning that better economic conditions and opportunities in destination countries affect Turkish migrants' decision of emigration positively.
In the first approach, i.e., the Heckman two-step procedure (Bierens 2007) remittance decision, the outcome equation in the model measures the factors affecting migrants' decision in sending remittances.
First, individual migration duration is driven by family motives, with left-behind children in particular children in primary school being significant determinants of the migrants' decision to extend their length of stay in cities.
Going back to the illustrative model presented in Section 3, these findings highlight a number of potentially important channels in migrants' decision to stay longer in cities or to return.
Although less explicit, economic factors also played a role in several of the migrants decision to migrate.
Migrants' decision-making process usually evolves alongside significant life events: study abroad, graduation/employment, relationship/marriage and becoming parents.
In this paper, we present a theory of migrants' decisions on their remittance-saving portfolio under uncertainty about labor market performance in the host country and endogenous return migration.
