Risk-laden migration as a response to relative deprivation: A hypothesis

No 329580, Discussion Papers from University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Labor and Human Capital; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13
Date: 2022-12-06
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.329580

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