UNU-MERIT Working Papers Series
Net-immigration of developing countries: The role of economic determinants, disasters, conflicts, and political instability
Thomas Ziesemer #2010-009We provide regressions for the net immigration flows of developing
countries. We show that (i) savings finance emigration and worker
remittances serve to make staying rather than migrating possible; (ii)
lagged dependent migration flows have a negative sign in the presence of
migration stock variables; (iii) stocks of migrants in six OECD
countries and in the developing countries have non-linear effects. Some
of the non-linear effects vanish if indicators for disasters, conflicts
and political instability are taken into account.
JEL-code: F22, O15.
Keywords: migration, remittances, disasters, conflicts, political
instability.
UNU-MERIT Working Papers
ISSN 1871-9872
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