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Mexico. We use a 28-year panel of individuals to investigate how people adjust their sector and location of work in response … to year-to-year variation in weather. Controlling for state-year and individual fixed effects, we find that individuals ….2-3% decrease in local employment and a 1-2% increase in domestic migration from rural to urban areas. These results provide an …
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The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by … examining migration rates and levels of education in developing countries. Many studies such as the Stern review (2007) or the … migration is crucial; developed countries need to manage the increasingly complicated issues of additional incoming migratory …
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Large, catastrophic floods intensify environmental scarcity and can lead to mass displacement from affected areas. The sudden and mass influx of migrants could increase the risk of social tensions in receiving areas. In this paper, we analyze the impact of the displacement induced by large...
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disasters to a gravity model of migration, where the bilateral migration flow between 182 countries of the world is the unit of … analysis. The empirical tests demonstrate a statistically significant relation between migration and climate change, however …
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We examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between … on a simple neo-classical model we use a panel dataset of bilateral migration flows for the period 1960-2000, the time … whole, we find little direct impact of climatic change on international migration in the medium to long run across our …
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In this paper, we examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish …. We then test the model using a panel dataset of bilateral migration flows for the period 1960-2000, the time and dyadic … specification, having accounted for other well documented determinants of migration, we find no direct impact of climatic change on …
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In this paper, we examine environmental factors as potential determinants of inter- national migration. We distinguish …. We then test the model us- ing a panel dataset of bilateral migration flows for the period 1960-2000, the time and dyadic … specification, having accounted for other well documented determinants of migration, we find no direct impact of climatic change on …
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climate change, through leading to more extreme weather events, will contribute to further migration from the continent. … natural disasters have a sig-nificant impact on migration from SSA, raising the net out-migration by around 0.37 persons per 1 …,000. No direct evidence was found that natural disasters lead to further migration through impacting on GDP growth. It is …
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(english) In this paper, we investigate the determinants of the regional patterns of Mexico-US migration flows. Along … of state-to-state emigration and return migration flows between Mexico and the US for the period 1995-2012. We exploit … with traditional economic determinants, we examine the role played by environmental factors and violence in Mexico in …
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