Out-migration, wealth constraints, and the quality of local amenities

Dustmann, Christian; Okatenko, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.05.008

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“…These results suggest that policy interventions such as cash transfer programs and expansions of flood protection could give households more options to respond to future environmental shocks associated with climate change. Regarding contemporary labor migration, our results contribute to a literature documenting that migration is costly and that even temporary moves can be undermined by a lack of resources (Bryan et al, 2014; Dustmann & Okatenko 2014), in this case by short-term flooding and by medium-term wet and dry precipitation shocks. Given this context, policies that buffer against shocks (e.g., crop insurance) or reduce barriers to migration (e.g., land registration) should be considered in order to improve access to livelihood-enhancing temporary migration.…”

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Disruption, not displacement: Environmental variability and temporary migration in Bangladesh

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Gray²,

Yunus

et al. 2017

Global Environmental Change

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Mass migration is one of the most concerning potential outcomes of global climate change. Recent research into environmentally induced migration suggests that relationship is much more complicated than originally posited by the ‘environmental refugee’ hypothesis. Climate change is likely to increase migration in some cases and reduce it in others, and these movements will more often be temporary and short term than permanent and long term. However, few large-sample studies have examined the evolution of temporary migration under changing environmental conditions. To address this gap, we measure the extent to which temperature, precipitation, and flooding can predict temporary migration in Matlab, Bangladesh. Our analysis incorporates high-frequency demographic surveillance data, a discrete time event history approach, and a range of sociodemographic and contextual controls. This approach reveals that migration declines immediately after flooding but quickly returns to normal. In contrast, optimal precipitation and high temperatures have sustained positive effects on temporary migration that persist over one to two year periods. Building on previous studies of long-term migration, these results challenge the common assumption that flooding, precipitation extremes and high temperatures will consistently increase temporary migration. Instead, our results are consistent with a livelihoods interpretation of environmental migration in which households draw on a range of strategies to cope with environmental variability.

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Disruption, not displacement: Environmental variability and temporary migration in Bangladesh

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Gray²,

Yunus

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Global Environmental Change

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“…Recent papers use both individual and aggregate data. Most individual-level studies show that financial constraints do matter for migration (see Dustmann and Okatenko, 2014 on sub-Saharan Africa and Asia regions, Mendola, 2008;Sharma andZaman, 2013 on Bangladesh, Beam et al, forthcoming andMcDonald andValenzuela, 2012 on the Philippines, and Friebel and Guriev, 2005 on Russia). Some other studies (e.g., Beegle et al, 2011 on Tanzania andAbramitzky et al, 2013 on Norway) find no significant effects.…”

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Breaking out of poverty traps: Internal migration and interregional convergence in Russia

Guriev

Vakulenko

2015

Journal of Comparative Economics

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Guriev, Sergei, and Vakulenko, Elena-Breaking out of poverty traps: Internal migration and interregional convergence in RussiaWe study barriers to labor mobility using panel data on gross region-to-region migration flows in Russia in 1996-2010. Using both parametric and semiparametric methods and controlling for region-to-region pairwise fixed effects, we find a non-monotonic relation-ship between income and migration. In richer regions, higher incomes result in lower migration outflows. However, in the poorest regions, an increase in incomes results in higher emigration. This is consistent with the presence of geographical poverty traps: potential migrants want to leave the poor regions but cannot afford to move. We also show that economic growth and financial development have allowed most Russian regions to grow out of poverty traps bringing down interregional differentials of wages, incomes and unemployment rates. Journal of Comparative Economics 43 (3) (2015) 633-649. Sciences Po,

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“…Using individual-level data allows us to relax the restriction. Previous literature has also found that distance, cultural similarities (Belot and Hatton, 2012), language barriers, immigration policies (Mayda, 2010), wealth level (Dustmann and Okatenko, 2014) and migrants' network (McKenzie and Rapoport, 2010;Pedersen et al, 2008;Piotrowski, 2006) are important factors affecting the likelihood of migration. Ability to finance the cost of migration also affect migration likelihood and Ilahi and Jafarey (1999) find evidence of extended family taking out loans to finance the migration cost of the migrants in Pakistan.…”

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Do Bangladeshi migrants favourably self-select and sort across destinations?

Shamsuddin

2016

International Journal of Manpower

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether migrants from Bangladesh choose the destination that offers them the highest earnings and whether the relative stock of the skilled migrants in a destination increases with the earnings differences between the skilled and the unskilled. Design/methodology/approach -Using a nationally representative sample of both stayers and migrants from Bangladesh to all destinations and correcting for self-selection bias in earnings using a semi-parametric method developed by Dahl (2002), the author tests whether selection and sorting of Bangladeshi migrants depend on cross-country differences in the rewards to skills as suggested by the Roy (1951) model of comparative advantage. Findings -Migrants from Bangladesh not only choose the destinations that offer the highest earnings but also the destination that offers the highest earnings relative to the skill level of the migrants. Research limitations/implications -Due to the unavailability of data on recruiting agencies, we cannot investigate the role played by recruiting agencies in the migrant's decision. Social implications -Policy-makers in both the sending and destination countries need to know how migrants choose their destinations in order to formulate effective and welfare-enhancing migration policies. Originality/value -This paper is the first to study how skill composition and earnings shape migration from Bangladesh using micro-level data. It is also the first to study sorting behavior of migrants from any South Asian countries.

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Out-migration, wealth constraints, and the quality of local amenities

Cited by 219 publications

References 29 publications

Disruption, not displacement: Environmental variability and temporary migration in Bangladesh

Disruption, not displacement: Environmental variability and temporary migration in Bangladesh

Breaking out of poverty traps: Internal migration and interregional convergence in Russia

Do Bangladeshi migrants favourably self-select and sort across destinations?

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