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| Author: | Selmer, J. Lauring, J. |
| Title: | Acquired demographics and reasons to relocate among self-initiated expatriates |
| Journal: | International journal of human resource management
2011 : JUN-JUL, VOL. 22:10-12 p. 2055-2070 |
| Index terms: | foreign workers employees relocation universities colleges Europe |
| Freeterms: | expatriate academics |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article investigates self-initiated expatriates, who themselves have decided to expatriate to work abroad. Data was gathered from 428 self-initiated expatriate academics from 60 countries employed in 35 universities in five northern European countries. Four acquired demographic characteristics were examined: marital status, nationality, previous expatriate experience and seniority, as well as five individual reasons to expatriate: adventure/travel, career, family, financial incentives and life change/escape. The findings supported the hypotheses, proposing that self-initiated expatriates' reasons to expatriate depend on acquired personal characteristics. |
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