Between cosmopolitanism and parochialism: return migration of early-career Israeli academics

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 4 Model estimation results 1 (LOGIT): dependent variable = ECR’s repatriation

Model fit summery	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Number of observations	223	223	223
– 2 Log-likelihood	194.997	100.845	65.483
Cox & Snell pseudo-R²	0.331	0.504	0.567
Nagelkerke pseudo-R²	0.460	0.699	0.786

Parameter^a	Estimate	SE	Estimate	SE	Estimate	SE
Localism and ideology
The importance of amenities and quality of life in the place of living	− 1.142	0.195***	− 1.542	0.312***	− 1.486	0.407***
The importance of being patriotic	0.591	0.148***	0.618	0.216**	0.707	0.292**
Raising my offspring as local	0.756	0.164***	0.335	0.219	0.072	0.301
Placed-based communal-social embeddedness
Geo proximity of the parents			0.513	0.165**	0.572	0.233**
The importance of the spouse’s wish to live in the current place of living			0.833	0.224***	0.862	0.317**
The importance of the scholar’s wish to live near friends when choosing the current job position			0.691	0.236**	1.144	0.351***
The degree to which friends and parents assisted in decision making			0.919	0.276***	1.268	0.417**
Economic and personal effects
Parental support					0.637	0.036**
Total number of years spent abroad					0.330	0.170*
Owning assets					− 0.512	0.856
Spouse experienced difficulties in finding a job, at the post-decision period					1.127	0.732
Constant	0.367	0.554	− 7.385	1.215***	− 8.649	2.283***

*Significant at the 0.10 level; **significant at the 0.05 level; ***significant at the 0.01 level
^aThe full description of the variables is given in “Appendix 1”