Year: 2014
Type: preprint
Abstract: Is international migration an adaptation strategy to sudden or gradual climatic shocks? In this paper\nwe investigate the direct and the indirect role of climatic shocks in developing countries as a\ndeterminant of out-migration flows toward rich OECD countries in the period 1990-2001.\nContrarily to the bulk of existing studies we use a macro approach and explicitly consider the\nheterogeneity of climatic shocks (type, size, sign of shocks and seasonal effects). Our results show\nthat the occurrence of adverse climatic events in origin countries has significative direct and indirect\neffects on out-migration from poor to rich countries.
Authors: Nicola D. Coniglio, Giovanni Pesce
Institutions: University of Bari Aldo Moro, Norwegian School of Economics
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
Funder: European Commission
Award: G5675325646
OpenAlex ID: W3124825019