Arbeitspapier
Out-migration, Wealth Constraints, and the Quality of Local Amenities
Using a simple theoretical model, we show that the level of migration costs relative to wealth determines the form of the relation between income and migration intentions, which can be monotonically decreasing, increasing, or inverse U-shaped. Using unique individual level data, covering three geographic regions - sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America - we show that migration intentions do indeed respond to individual wealth, and that the patterns differ across the country groups studied in a manner compatible with the predictions of our model. Further, contentment with various dimensions of local amenities plays an important role for migration decisions.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 13/13
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- Thema
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Migration and Wealth Constraints
Migration Intentions
Local Amenities
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Dustmann, Christian
Okatenko, Anna
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
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London
- (wann)
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2013
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Dustmann, Christian
- Okatenko, Anna
- Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
Entstanden
- 2013
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