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Developing Countries’ Net-migration: The Impact of Economic Opportunities, Disasters, Conflicts, and Political Instability

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: We provide regressions for the net immigration flows of developing countries. We show that (i) savings finance emigration and worker remittances serve to make staying rather than migrating possible; (ii) lagged dependent migration flows have a negative sign in the presence of migration stock variables; (iii) stocks of migrants in six OECD countries and in the developing countries have non-linear effects. Some of the non-linear effects of the economic variables vanish if indicators for disasters, conflicts and political instability are taken into account but new ones come in for these latter variables.

Source: International Economic Journal

DOI: 10.1080/10168737.2011.607258

Author: Thomas H.W. Ziesemer

Institutions: United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology, Maastricht University

Language: English

Topic: Migration and Labor Dynamics

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2060373327

FWCI: 3.133

Cites: 29

Cited by: 14

Related to: 10