title: Migration plans and hours of work in Malaysia.
abstract: "This article describes characteristics of prospective migrants in the Malaysian Family Life Survey and investigates how planning to move affects hours of work.  [The authors] use ideas about intertemporal substitution...to discuss the response to temporary and permanent wage expectations on the part of potential migrants.  [An] econometric section presents reduced-form estimates for wage rates and planned migration equations and two-stage least squares estimates for hours of work.  Men currently planning a move were found to work fewer hours.  Those originally planning only a temporary stay at their current location work more hours."
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Gillin
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Sumner
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001210:Asia, Southeastern; D001519:Behavior; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D006280:Health Workforce; D007182:Income; D008296:Malaysia; D009042:Motivation; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011584:Psychology; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Asia; Behavior; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Employment Status; Human Resources; Income; Labor Force; Macroeconomic Factors; Malaysia; Migrants; Migration; Migration, Internal; Motivation; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Psychological Factors; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Southeastern Asia; Time Factors; Wages