Is Environmentally-induced Income Variability a Driver of Human Migration?

Luca Marchiori (), Jean-François Maystadt and Ingmar Schumacher

No 2017-010, Working Papers from Department of Research, Ipag Business School

Abstract: It was recently suggested that the role of environmentally-induced income variability as a determinant of migration has been studied little to none. We provide a theoretical discussion based on a `risk aversion channel' and an overview of the empirical literature on this. We also extend a previous empirical study on 39 sub-Saharan African countries with yearly data from 1960 to 2000 (Marchiori, Maystadt and Schumacher, 2012) by including income variability. Our findings lead us to acknowledge that income variability is a negligible driver of migration decisions at the macroeconomic level.

Keywords: Income variability; international migration; rural-urban migration; weather anomalies; sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2017-01-01
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