Linking climate change, rice yield, and migration: the Philippine experience

F.H. Bordey, C.C. Launio, E.J.P. Quilang, C.M.A. Tolentino and Nimfa Ogena

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Abstract: This study tests the hypothesis that climate change, through its rice productivity impacts, induces out-migration in the Philippines. Results show that climate change effects such as increasing night time temperature and extreme rainfall pattern, by way of reduction in rice yield and farm revenues, significantly increases the number of Overseas Filipino Workers. Findings also show that overseas migration of female workers is more sensitive to climate and rice productivity changes compared to male overseas migration. However, unlike overseas migration, the reduction in yield and farm revenues act as a constraint to domestic migration.

Keywords: Climate change; Rice yield; Philippines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 9789719994176
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