Özet:

In the literature, the decision of migration is studied under four different migration models. While the labor-flow view explains migration with the differences in income and employment structure between sending and receiving areas, the human capital view deals with migration issue as a long-term investment decision. The regional amenities approach emphasizes the importance of regional amenities such as education and health quality, and the household production approach examines migration as a family decision instead of an individual one. This study aims to explain the main economic, social and cultural factors that make a city more attractive than the others and the reasons of the migration to some cities in Turkey by employing a data set for 73 cities. The study identifies the explanatory variables of net domestic migration by cities and finds that migration is highly correlated in an expected direction with average income differences and unemployment rate in sending and receiving areas, degree of industrialisation, qualities of health and educational services, and particularly with employment opportunities for women in some cities as emphasised in the theoretical models of migration decision. The study reveals that these factors have reasonably high explanatory power for the migration problem to particular cities in case of Turkey.

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