Origin-Country Social Protection Regimes and Migration Intentions: Evidence from Tunisia
Description
This replication package reproduces all results reported in "Origin-Country Social Protection Regimes and Migration Intentions: Evidence from Tunisia" (forthcoming in Economic Modelling). It supersedes earlier versions of this dataset. The analysis uses microdata from the non-migrant module of the Tunisia Household International Migration Survey (Tunisia-HIMS, 2021), produced by the Institut National de la Statistique (INS). The analytical sample consists of 4,228 non-migrants who were employed before the COVID-19 outbreak. The study compares the migration intentions of workers covered by contributory (employment-based) social insurance or by state (means-tested) assistance with those of comparable unprotected workers. The package contains the raw INS data file, as published by INS (also freely available from the INS website) and subject to the INS terms of use; a single master do-file, which builds every variable from the raw data and runs every estimation in sequence without manual intervention; the analysis data set, with English labels; and the outputs of our run (log, estimates, figures). The README file describes each file, explains how to run the do-file, and lists the output that corresponds to each table and figure of the paper.
Files
Steps to reproduce
Put all files of this dataset in one folder, open master_replication.do and set the path of that folder in section 0 (global ROOT), then run the whole file in Stata 17 or later (about 40 minutes; the required packages are installed automatically from SSC). All results are written to the subfolder "output", which is included here as produced by our run. See README.txt for full instructions and for the correspondence between outputs and the tables and figures of the paper.
Institutions
- Tunis UniversityTunis Governorate, Tunis
- Institut Agro DijonBourgogne-Franche-Comté, Dijon