Showing 1 - 10 of 239
African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). We focus on migration ows within the WAEMU countries to disentangle the … show that migration in the WAEMU is associated with a decline in female labor participation, as it is primarily motivated … robust to accounting for the double selection into shocks and migration using a Propensity Score Matching technique that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648528
While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known … environmental disasters. This paper uses state-level data on migration ows between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2012 to … investigate the mitigating impact of an agricultural cashtransfer program (PROCAMPO) and a disaster fund (Fonden) on the migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806783
This paper uses state-level migration ow data between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2011 to investigate the … migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a … disaster fund (Fonden). Our results suggest that lower than average precipitations increase undocumented migration, especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114072
We analyse internal migration triggered by natural disasters in Bangladesh. We conducted a survey in nine coastal … shocks, affect interregional migration differently compared to riverbank erosion that causes loss of lands and thus generates … can be improved by facilitating migration. Rising exposure to climate change induced natural disasters around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129946
and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254234
on international migration contingent on agriculture exists. Third, non-environmental factors such as economic …The growing literature on environmental migration presents conflicting results. While some find that natural disasters … induce international migration, others discover a dampening effect. We aim to reconcile these differences by using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156270
Theory suggests that cultural similarity increases migration flows between countries. This paper brings best practices … from the trade gravity literature to migration to test this prediction. In my preferred specification, I use lags of time …-varying similarity variables in a panel of international and domestic migration flows (>200 countries, 1990-2019, 5-year intervals) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433062
Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, surprisingly hardly any evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013283993
This article is the first to systematically study whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee data on 141 origin countries over the 1976-2013 period with bilateral Official Development Assistance data, we estimate the causal effects of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131360
This study estimates the impact of interprovincial and international migration on interprovincial trade using annual … migration and interprovincial trade. Estimated results show that interprovincial and international net migrations are positive … international migration than interprovincial exports. Province-wise estimates indicate that Quebec, British Columbia, Saskatchewan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012160050