Constructing the Model of Environmental Migration

Martin Daniel Siyaranamual

No 200901, Working Papers in Economics and Development Studies (WoPEDS) from Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University

Abstract: To address the surprising lack of research in the area of environmental migration, this paper reviews the existing literature and proposes two basic, two region, and general equilibrium models: a closed economy and a small open economy where migration occurs between regions. The models show that migration increases welfare in the rural region, characterized by a tragedy of the commons production function, but does not affect welfare in the region with a constant returns to scale production function. The paper also provides an economic definition of an environmental refugee in the respect of an environmental migrant.

Keywords: environmental; migrant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-env and nep-mig
Date: 2009-03, Revised 2009-03
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