Climate variability and international migration : an empirical analysis
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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.