Project for agent-based modeling course for social scientists with University of Southampton. This file runs the developed ABM.

Main question: Do people decide to migrate / how the decision to migrate is influenced by compatriot networks in foreign country

- migrate or not

- % of compatriots empolyed in foreign country
- distance

Our agents will enter the when they turn 18, and exit upon 65 or retirement (whichever comes first) - employment status (unemployed, fully employed, part-time) - age - sex - nationality - current location

- influence others in your network on migration decision
    - e.g. come to this new place, it's great or no please do migrate

Still in development, but we need time for: - when agents interact with eachother (how long are you in a place before you influence your network) - decision to migrate after interaction with other agents - become employed or remain unemployed in some X amount of time - some agents enter job market (turn 18 and start looking fo a job in home country or abroad) some other exit the market (turn 65 and retire)

- Physical distance between origin and destionation country
-Social (number of people in your network that already migrated)
-Economic environment (e.g. GDP, income per capita, overall unemployment rate)