title: Motivation for migration and economic success.
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."
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Winter-ebmer
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D001519:Behavior; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D007182:Income; D009042:Motivation; D010139:Pacific Islands; D011057:Politics; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011584:Psychology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Australia; Behavior; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Immigrants; Income; Migrants; Migration; Motivation; Oceania; Political Factors; Population; Population Dynamics; Psychological Factors; Socioeconomic Factors