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Respondents in this study practice in both public and private hospitals. In general, public
and private hospitals differ in terms of equipment, number of medical staff, financial
situation of staff, and other characteristics. These differences between private and public
hospitals might affect intention to migrate within medical professionals practicing in the
two kinds of hospitals. In order to test the relationship between workplace (private or
public sector) and intention to migrate (yes or no), a Chi-square test is performed with the
two categorical variables workplace (public or private) and intention to migrate (yes or
no). The results reveal that there is no significant relationship between the workplace and
intention to migrate. In other words, working in a public hospital or a private one does
not affect the respondent’s intention to migrate.
Kumar and Simi (2007) indicate that financial reasons are the most important motivating
factor for doctors who relocated to overseas destinations. In order to investigate this
assumption, respondents were asked to evaluate their current salaries as very good, good,
or poor. To assess whether the rating of current salaries is related to the intention to
migrate, a Chi-square test is performed with salary rating and intention to migrate as two
categorical variables. The chi-square test results suggest opposing results to what was
suggested by (Kumar and Simi, 2007) and reveal that rating of salaries does not affect
respondents’ intention to migrate.
A further important factor that might be leading to migration is the circumstances under
which the medical doctor works. The health sector in Morocco has been widely criticized
by medical doctors. The last manifestations in Rabat are a good evidence of medical
professionals’ dissatisfaction about their current situation. The survey asked respondents
to rate the difficulty they find in treating patients on a scale from 0 to 10, with 0 as
finding no difficulty and 10 as highly difficult. In order to test whether finding difficulties
in treating patients affect medical professionals’ intention to migrate, a logit regression is
performed with difficulty score as an independent variable and intention to migrate as a
dependent variable. The results suggest that the score of difficulty in treating patients is
positively related to intention to migrate. In other words, facing difficulties in treating
patients increases respondents’ intention to migrate.
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