Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Ziesemer, Thomas
Author-Email: t.ziesemer@maastrichtuniversity.nl 
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, and Maastricht University
Title: Net-immigration of developing countries: The role of economic determinants, 
	 disasters, conflicts, and political instability 
Abstract: We 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.
Classification-JEL: F22, O15
Keywords: migration, remittances, disasters, conflicts, political instability
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2010
Number: 2010-009
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2010/wp2010-009.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2010009