Migration is one of the channels West African populations can use to adjust to the negative impacts of climate change … drive international migration decisions within the region and toward Europe. The findings show that drier soil conditions …Migration ist eine der Möglichkeiten, welche die westafrikanische Bevölkerung nutzen kann, um sich an die negativen …

variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration. Most existing studies … investigate whether households send a migrant after experiencing weather shocks, but the literature lacks evidence on migration as … an ex-ante measure. In this paper, we disentangle the direct effect of weather shocks on income from agriculture from the …

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 … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …

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 … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …

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 …

This paper estimates the impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) on migration and other economic outcomes …. I develop a quantitative spatial model that captures the role of trade networks, migration barriers, and agricultural …, by the end of the century, reduces SSA real GDP per capita by 1.8 percent and displaces 4 million individuals. Migration …

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 …

) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for … conditions, migration perceptions, or adaptation capabilities. We find that droughts are associated with a higher probability of … migration intentions in Senegal, Niger and Ivory Coast. The effect on international migration intentions are only significant in …

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 …

-induced migration. It includes the recent empirical analyses that try to link environmental change to migration flows and the spatial … migration flows due to climate variability. The evidence to date shows that regional migration will be affected, though, either … on the African continent or internally, within country borders. Theoretically, environmentally-induced migration can be …