All rights reserved XIII Balkan Conference on Operational Research - BALCOR 2018 Keywords: multiple criteria decision aiding, ELECTRE, internal migrations, SRF method application/pdf 402454 bytes eng info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceProceedings https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:29049 ELECTRE III approach as a tool for migration problematic Abstract: Internal migration is one of the most fundamental responses to different development dynamics of regions. In the most advanced societies, inter-regional migration is an important mechanism through which labor resources are redistributed geographically in response to changing economic and demographic forces. In this paper, we present the possibility for the use of multiple criteria decision aiding (MCDA) techniques, namely, ELECTRE III, as a tool for the problems related to the internal migration issues. To show the effectiveness of MCDA methods in this type of problems we use Serbian districts data, define criteria based on academic literature regarding determinants of internal migrations and develop a ranking of districts according to their migration potential. In that way, we show regions with strong emigration and immigration potential in the next period. Most importantly, ranking procedure will yield districts with the worst potential and show where should be policymakers’ focus. Stamenković, Mladen Arandarenko, Mihail Corrente, Salvatore Jandrić, Maja 2018