Do Natural Hazards Cause International Migration?*

Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Steinwachs, Thomas

doi:10.1093/cesifo/ifx005

Cited by 72 publications

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“…We observe 9,650 examples of positive migration flows which gives us only 16 per cent of zero observations. This is much lower than Gröschl and Steinwachs () with 65 per cent or Beine and Parsons () with an average of 55 per cent. The difference is likely to be a result of our inclusion only of destination countries that have large migration inflows.…”

Section: Datamentioning

confidence: 56%

Moving Towards Happiness?

Grimes

Wesselbaum

2019

International Migration

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We add to the literature on the driving forces of international migration. While the existing literature establishes that income differences, migration costs and certain other factors (e.g. climate or human rights) affect the migration decision, we focus on the broader role of non‐pecuniary factors. We include well‐being measures in a standard model of bilateral migration flows and enrich the analysis further by testing the effects on migration of inequality in happiness within a country. Our findings that both the mean and standard deviation of happiness – in both origin and destination countries – help explain bilateral migration flows over and above any income effect, indicates the need to incorporate both pecuniary and non‐pecuniary factors when modelling migration choices.

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Section: Datamentioning

confidence: 56%

Moving Towards Happiness?

Grimes

Wesselbaum

2019

International Migration

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“…Such a brief summary of devastating earthquakes and their consequences clearly show that the management of catastrophic events strictly depends on the housing conditions in the earthquake-hit city as well as the local policy and the circumstances under which the earthquake occurred [9][10][11][12].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of the Population Assistance and Returning Home in the Reconstruction Process of the 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake

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Abstract:The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake left approximately 67,000 homeless people. The earthquake severely damaged facilities, structures, and infrastructure of L'Aquila town, the capital of Abruzzo region, as well as 56 other municipalities in the so-called "crater". The resident population in the crater area at the time of the earthquake included 68,503 inhabitants in the city of L'Aquila and 71,081 in other municipalities of the crater, yielding a total of 139,584 inhabitants. Several solutions were adopted to host homeless people in the immediate emergency phase; then, temporary accommodations were built to host people up to the completion of the reconstruction process. This paper analyzes the timeline by which people who lived in L'Aquila city at the time of earthquake was enabled to return to their houses, either repaired and strengthened or rebuilt. In particular, this analysis covers the first phase of the reconstruction process as well as its second phase, which is currently still ongoing in L'Aquila's historical centers. The trend of a population returning home discussed herein has been determined based on data collected from different databases given by several institutions engaged in the emergency and reconstruction phases; this allowed an estimation of the number of people returned to their homes over time.

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“…Gröschl and Steinwachs () find significant effects of climate change on migration. They use a hazard index that is computed from disasters and changes in temperature and rainfall.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Influence of Climate on Migration

Wesselbaum¹

2019

Australian Economic Review

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This paper provides an overview of research into the phenomenon of whether climatic factors, such as temperature and weatherrelated disasters, affect the decision to migrate. As an example, we examine migration flows from 198 countries to Australia for the time span from 1980 to 2015. Our results show that temperature does not have a robust, significant effect on migration flows, while weather-related disasters do significantly affect flows to Australia.

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Do Natural Hazards Cause International Migration?*

Cited by 72 publications

References 52 publications

Moving Towards Happiness?

Moving Towards Happiness?

Analysis of the Population Assistance and Returning Home in the Reconstruction Process of the 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake

The Influence of Climate on Migration

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