The Relationship between Migration and Unemployment: An Empirical Investigation

Migration is defined as people moving from one geographic region to another, and it is a complicated social event in terms of environmental, economic, sociological, political, and cultural aspects. Migration is known to have various effects on unemployment. The direction and level of these effects depend on the individual conditions of each country in terms of sociological, environmental, and other aspects. In the existing literature, we observed that an agreed-upon opinion does not exist about the direction and level of the relationship between these two variables. Thus, we investigated the relationship between migration and unemployment using the annual data from 2014–2016 for Turkey. For this purpose, we performed our analysis using the data collected from the TSI database. We analyzed the data using descriptive statistics and we performed a correlation analysis after completing the normality distribution test as a precondition of the correlation analysis. The results indicate that there is a strong and positive relationship between received and given migration and general and youth unemployment