Contagious Migration: Evidence from the Philippines

Michael Abrigo and Desiree Desierto

No 201106, UP School of Economics Discussion Papers from University of the Philippines School of Economics

Abstract: Outward migration data from the Philippines exhibit spatial clustering. This is likely due to information spillover effects--fellow migrants share information with other neighboring migrants, thereby lowering the costs of migration. To verify this, we use spatial econometrics to define a geography-­based network of migrants and estimate its effect on the growth in the number of succeeding migrants. We find that current and past migration from one municipality induces contemporaneous and future migration in neighboring municipalities, even while controlling for demographic, economic and institutional factors that may be common across municipalities.

Keywords: Migration; Network effects; spatial econometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 D85 F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2011-09
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Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. 2011-06, September 2011

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