Arbeitspapier

Risk-laden Migration as a Response to Relative Deprivation: A Hypothesis

Received migration research has it that higher relative deprivation strengthens the incentive for people to migrate, and that migration is often a risky enterprise. Relative deprivation has been seen as a push factor in migration, and the level of risk involved in migration has been understood to reduce its attraction. Here we show a positive relationship between the level of relative deprivation experienced at origin and willingness to undertake risk-laden migration: we show that higher relative deprivation is matched by riskier acceptable migration options. In expanding the range of acceptable risk-laden migration options, relative deprivation experienced at origin acts also as a pull factor for migration.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15908

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
International Migration
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Thema
social preferences
relative deprivation
risk-laden migration

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Stark, Oded
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2023

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Stark, Oded
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2023

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