Climate variability and international migration : an empirical analysis

dc.contributor.author	Coniglio, Nicola D.
dc.contributor.author	Pesce, Giovanni
dc.date.accessioned	2014-10-17T09:49:14Z
dc.date.available	2014-10-17T09:49:14Z
dc.date.issued	2014-10
dc.identifier.issn	0804-6824
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11250/224078
dc.description.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.	nb_NO
dc.language.iso	eng	nb_NO
dc.publisher	SAM	nb_NO
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Discussion paper;31/14
dc.subject	climate shocks	nb_NO
dc.subject	international migration	nb_NO
dc.title	Climate variability and international migration : an empirical analysis	nb_NO
dc.type	Working paper	nb_NO