THE CAUSAL EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL GLOBALIZATION ON MIGRANTS: A PANEL DATA ANALYSIS FOR SELECTED OECD COUNTRIES

Although it mostly includes economic factors in its origin, the statement of “the removal of inter-country borders”, included in the definition of globalization, also includes inter-country human movement, which makes it a social concept. Migration is a factor that causes significant changes in the socio-cultural and economic structures of the migration-receiving country. Accordingly, in order to be able to explain the economic effects of globalization concept, it becomes important to identify how this concept affects labor markets of countries. The effects of globalization on migration received by OECD countries were attempted to be explained from this perspective in the study by investigating the interaction of migration concept, effective on labor structures of countries, with globalization. In the present study, the relationship between globalization and migration in the period of 2000-2014 for selected 30 OECD countries was investigated with Dumitrescu and Hurlinpanel causality test. As a result of the test, the presence of a causality relationship was identified between globalization and migration in the relevant period for 30 OECD countries