A Chaos Theory Perspective on International Migration

Anca Tănasie, Raluca Drăcea and Georgiana Raluca Lădaru
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Anca Tănasie: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Craiova, Craiova 200585, Romania
Raluca Drăcea: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Craiova, Craiova 200585, Romania
Georgiana Raluca Lădaru: Faculty of Agrifood and Environmental Economics, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Mihail Moxa Street, no. 5-7, District 1, Bucharest 010374, Romania

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 12, 1-10

Abstract: This paper aims at providing a different approach to international migration analysis, beyond classical models previously proposed by specialized literature. Chaos theory is getting more and more applied into macroeconomics once traditional linear models or even previous dynamic analysis become less suitable. Modern science sees chaos as unpredictable evolution, maybe even disorder. Still, chaos has got its own rules and can describe many dynamic phenomena within our world. Thus, we test whether international migration data falls under the rules of chaos and whether recent developments within the “European migration crisis” (the total daily migration inflows towards the coasts of Italy, by sea, from January 2014 to April 2017) could be described as chaotic.

Keywords: international migration; chaos theory; crisis; EU (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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