“…The forced migration damage is interpreted in the CAGE model as an increase in obliged consumption, which means that the expenditure associated with forced migration is included as part of GDP, but not part of welfare (equivalent 9 The sectors are coal, gas, petroleum, crude oil, electricity, construction, chemicals, agriculture, crops, forest, metals, other energy intensive industries, electronic equipment, transport equipment, other equipment, consumer goods, transport, market services and non-market services. 10 The same disaggregation was used for the PESETA project (Ciscar et al 2011 variation). 11 Therefore, the obliged consumption implies a welfare loss, as consumption is allocated to (compulsory) migration instead of other purposes.…”