losses, and ii) the model is able to capture both positive and negative economic effects of a disaster in different areas of …

disaster costs depend on the heterogeneity of losses and on the structure of the affected economic network. The model …

We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … conditions rather than in short-term weather fluctuations. The data to test these predictions are drawn from two different …

-layered diversification process in Western societies. Migration phenomena are largely responsible for this process both in receiving European … societies as well as in original sending countries. Migration has been and continues to be a ubiquitous human experience. Yet …

In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and …

migration. This paper addresses this gap, using microeconomic data for more than 100,000 individuals living in the European …

Ghana, like the rest of West Africa is experiencing tremendous human migration both internally and across international … boundaries. Rural-urban migration has assumed uncontrollable dimensions in the sub-region and the social consequences have become …