Climate Variability and International Migration: an empirical analysis

Nicola Coniglio and Giovanni Pesce ()

No 31/2014, Discussion Paper Series in Economics from Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics

Abstract: Is international migration an adaptation strategy to sudden or gradual climatic shocks? In this paper we investigate the direct and the indirect role of climatic shocks in developing countries as a determinant of out-migration flows toward rich OECD countries in the period 1990-2001. Contrarily to the bulk of existing studies we use a macro approach and explicitly consider the heterogeneity of climatic shocks (type, size, sign of shocks and seasonal effects). Our results show that the occurrence of adverse climatic events in origin countries has significative direct and indirect effects on out-migration from poor to rich countries.

Keywords: Climate shocks; international migration. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2014-10-28
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