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Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration
Beine, Michel; Parsons, Christopher
2015In Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 117 (2), p. 723-767
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Keywords :
Environmental Change; Natural Disasters; International Migration; Utility Maximization
Abstract :
[en] We examine natural disasters and long-run climatic factors as potential determinants of international migration, implementing a panel dataset of bilateral migration flows, 1960- 2000. We find no direct impact of long-run climatic factors on international migration across our entire sample. These results are robust when conditioning on origin country characteristics and when considering migrants returning home and the potential endogeneity of migrant networks. Rather we find evidence of indirect effects of environmental factors operating through wages. We find that epidemics and miscellaneous incidents spur international migration and strong evidence that natural disasters beget greater flows of migrants to urban environs.
Disciplines :
International economics
Author, co-author :
Beine, Michel  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA)
Parsons, Christopher;  University of Western Australia
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration
Publication date :
2015
Journal title :
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
ISSN :
0347-0520
Publisher :
Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
117
Issue :
2
Pages :
723-767
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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