Personality Traits and Emigration Intention: The Case of Taiwan

• In Event: Issues of Identity in (Im)migration

Brief Overview

This study demonstrates that psychological factors offer a certain level of explanatory power for individual migrating decisions. Our findings provide some policy implications to mitigate the risk of losing human capital in the future.

Authors

• Dennis Lu-Chung Weng, Sam Houston State University

• Ching-Hsing Wang, National Cheng Kung University

• Tsong-jyi Lin, Tamkang University