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Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015

This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...

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From stocks to flows - evidence for the climate-migration-nexus

Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik; Steinhardt, Max … - 2021

Slow onset climate change has the potential to cause significant migration flows. Scientists have recently made considerable efforts to quantify these flows based on empirical methods. However, the literature on international migration has failed to come to a clear conclusion as many studies...

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Climatic factors as determinants of international migration

Beine, Michel; Parsons, Christopher A. - 2012 - This version: February 2012

We examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between unexpected short-run factors, captured by natural disasters, as well as long-run climate change and climate variability. Building on a simple neo-classical model we use a panel dataset...

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Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration

Beine, Michel - 2012

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A Global Migration Framework Under Water : How Can the International Community Protect Climate Refugees?

Sussman, Caitlan M. - 2023

Climate disaster events are expected to displace at least 1.2 billion people by 2050. However, “climate refugees,” or individuals displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, lack international legal recognition and protection. In 2020, an international tribunal acknowledged in...

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Diversifying and benchmarking Madagascar

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2024

Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of … Madagascar and elsewhere. By comparing Madagascar with its peers, the paper aims to identify policies and strategies that can … foster economic and institutional diversification and to suggest pathways for Madagascar to promote the welfare of its people …

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Climate change, quality of government, and migration

Revelli, Federico; Tsai, Tsung-Sheng - 2024

estimation of the impact of climate change on the occurrence of natural disasters and of the latter on migration decisions within …

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Trend in International Migration Flows and Stocks,1975-2005

Lowell, B. Lindsay - 2007

This paper discusses broad trends in the rates and levels of international migration over the past three decades, the places that migrants leave from and the destinations they choose; and some of the demographic and policy implications of these trends. It raises some features of international...

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Trust, temperature fluctuations, and asylum applications

Carattini, Stefano; Veronesi, Marcella - 2020

This paper studies the relationship between generalized trust, temperature fluctuations during the maize growing season, and international migration by asylum seekers. A priori generalized trust can be expected to have an ambiguous effect on migration. On the one hand, countries with higher...

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The links between climate change, disasters, migration, and social resilience in Asia : a literature review

Ober, Kayly - 2019

This working paper was written as input for the Asian Development Outlook 2019. It reviews the literature at the intersection of disasters and migration in Asia and details the story of how disasters may affect mobility, from displacement to voluntary migration to "trapped populations." It also...

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