Are Human Rights and Economic Well-Being Substitutes? Evidence from Migration Patterns Across the Indian States
The aim of the paper is to study the relation between the demand for human rights and for economic prosperity. It analyzes the demand not, as it is often done in the literature, from the “voice” perspective (political activity), but rather looks at the “exit” perspective (migration patterns). Given the difficulties associated with identification in international samples we study the intra-national migration in a federation with significant economic and political differences between states – India. The paper finds that quality of human rights protection and economic well-being in the target state are substitutes when determining the patterns of migration. The results strongly depend on the framing effects: the human rights complaints seem to be interpreted differently by migrants depending on the trust into government in the target state
Year of publication: |
2013
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Authors: | Libman, Alexander |
Other Persons: | Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten (contributor) ; Yadav, Gaurav (contributor) |
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[2013]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Indien | India | Menschenrechte | Human rights | Teilstaat | State of a federation | Binnenwanderung | Internal migration | Lebensstandard | Standard of living |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (75 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 27, 2012 erstellt |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.1983880 [DOI] |
Classification: | D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy-Making and Implementation ; O43 - Institutions and Growth |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091818