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Migration is one of the strategies used by populations to adapt to natural shocks and also to respond to economic …
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Migration is one of the strategies used by populations to adapt to natural shocks and also to respond to economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457917
their consequences. Often, migration is an option in the set of coping strategies. In this paper, we look for empirical … migration in the aftermath of the event. In particular, we are interested in verifying whether the exposure to climate disaster …, per se, is a significant determinant for migration and how it interacts with the pre-existing socio-economic conditions …
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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 …
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Environmentally induced conflicts can trigger migration. This paper analyzes the location decisions of migrants, i … conflict. In addition to (transport-related) migration costs, migration governance shapes the sorting pattern of migrants …. Immigration policies in destination countries impose further costs to migration or even prevent settlement. At the same time …
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migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of …. Climate change intensifies poverty and income inequality creating favorable conditions for urbanization and migration from low … ages) over the course of the 21st century. However, under current migration laws and policies, forcibly displaced people …
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This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results … countries. Third, we exploit variation in the long-run change in average US climate from 1900 to 2019 and find that migration …. Finally, we project how climate change shapes the geography of US population growth by altering migration patterns, both …
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conflict, and argue that the findings are consistent with distress migration. Despite an increase in the willingness to migrate … following locust outbreaks, very few people may actually be able to migrate as they lack the necessary resources. As migration …
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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 …
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-prone, and flood-prone areas would respond to these events. Empirical studies have predicted that human migration has been among … understanding of the climate–migration relationship, the impacts of climate change on international migration flows from Sub … to dependency on agriculture are key factors in the climate change–international migration nexus. Policy implications are …
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