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A Reappraisal of the Migration-Development Nexus ; Testing the Robustness of the Migration Transition Hypothesis
| العنوان: | A Reappraisal of the Migration-Development Nexus ; Testing the Robustness of the Migration Transition Hypothesis |
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| المؤلفون: | Berthiaume, Nicolas, Leefmans, Naomi, Oomes, Nienke, Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo, Vervliet, Tobias |
| بيانات النشر: | World Bank, Washington, DC |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | The World Bank: Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, MIGRATION FLOW, TRADE AND INVESTMENT, LABOR MARKET, GRAVITY MODEL, MIGRATION HUMP |
| الوصف: | This paper tests the migration transition hypothesis that emigration flows first increase and later decrease with a country’s economic development. Using a migration version of the gravity model, this hypothesis is tested on a global panel data set comprising 180 origin and destination countries and a 50-year timeframe (1970-2020). This is the most extensive panel data set used so far to test the migration transition hypothesis. The results confirm the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between development and emigration within a cross-country panel setting. Nevertheless, the migration hump cannot be interpreted as a causal relationship: for a given low-income country, an increase in economic development is not found to lead to higher emigration. For a subsample of 44 countries that have transitioned from low-income to middle-income status, emigration has rather declined with economic development. The migration transition hypothesis is therefore unfounded. Instead, the migration hump appears to be driven by an underlying cross-sectional pattern that cannot be fully controlled: middle-income countries tend to exhibit higher emigration rates than low- or high-income countries. The findings of this paper have important policy implications: development programs can simultaneously promote economic development and reduce emigration. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | report |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf; text/plain |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9518; https://hdl.handle.net/10986/35032 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hdl.handle.net/10986/35032 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/786201611170919983/A-Reappraisal-of-the-Migration-Development-Nexus-Testing-the-Robustness-of-the-Migration-Transition-Hypothesis |
| Rights: | CC BY 3.0 IGO ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo ; World Bank |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.26D87F82 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
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