The Causes and Policy Responses to Forced Migration and Environmental Degradation in Africa

JF Maystadt, AK Mishra, V Mueller… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Forced migration has a complex relationship with the environment. The type of policy
responses required to alleviate distress migration and improve the livelihoods of involuntary …

Migration on the rise, a paradigm in decline: The last half-century of global mobility

M A. Clemens - AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022 - aeaweb.org
The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers are
moving between countries at rates not seen since before World War I. During the same …

Violence, development, and migration waves: Evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions

MA Clemens - Journal of Urban Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Does violence lead to flight from cities in the develo** world? This paper estimates the
effect of violent crime in municipalities of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala on the …

Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa: Insights from a multilevel analysis

S Bertoli, F Docquier, H Rapoport… - Journal of Economic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We use a multilevel approach to investigate whether a general and robust relationship
between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions can be …

[HTML][HTML] Scenario projections of South Asian migration patterns amidst environmental and socioeconomic change

S de Bruin, J Hoch, J de Bruijn, K Hermans… - Global Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Projecting migration is challenging, due to the context-specific and discontinuous relations
between migration and the socioeconomic and environmental conditions that drive this …

Labor market integration, local conditions and inequalities: Evidence from refugees in Switzerland

T Müller, P Pannatier, M Viarengo - World Development, 2023 - Elsevier
The paper examines the patterns of economic integration of refugees in Switzerland, a
country with a long tradition of hosting refugees, a top-receiving host in Europe, and a …

The impact of the Internet on migration aspirations and intentions

S Grubanov-Boskovic, S Kalantaryan, S Migali… - Migration …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This study investigates the relationship between Internet access and migration aspirations
and intentions in Africa. While empirical evidence on the role of telecommunications in …

Higher economic growth in poor countries, lower migration flows to the OECD–revisiting the migration hump with panel data

D Benček, C Schneiderheinze - World Development, 2024 - econstor.eu
Comparing emigration rates of countries at different stages of economic development, an
inverse u-shape emerges. Since the “migration hump” peaks at an average income of 6000 …

Persecution and migrant self-selection: Evidence from the collapse of the Communist bloc

R Abramitzky, T Baseler, I Sin - 2022 - nber.org
How does persecution affect who migrates? We analyze migrants' self-selection out of the
USSR and its satellite states before and after the collapse of Communism using census …

[PDF][PDF] Translating migration theory into empirical propositions

J Carling, M Czaika, MB Erdal - Changes, 2020 - quantmig.eu
With the steady rise in absolute numbers of international migrants globally, especially since
the turn of the Millennium, scientific and policy interest in migration dynamics, both to …