From Stocks to Flows – Evidence for the Climate-Migration-Nexus

33 Pages Posted: 14 Jun 2021

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Michael Berlemann

Ifo Institute Dresden

Erik Haustein

Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg

Max Friedrich Steinhardt

Free University of Berlin (FUB) - Department of Business and Economics; IZA Institute of Labor Economics; Centro Studi Luca D'Agliano (LdA); Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI)

Abstract

Slow onset climate change has the potential to cause significant migration flows. Scientists have recently made considerable efforts to quantify these flows based on empirical methods. However, the literature on international migration has failed to come to a clear conclusion as many studies found no significant effects of climate, while others did. In this paper, we aim to uncover a factor which likely contributes to the mixed picture in the literature: how migration flow data is obtained from migrant stock data. Using the influential study of Cattaneo and Peri (2016) as a workhorse, we demonstrate that the derived empirical results depend heavily on the applied method to derive migration flows. Therefore, our study reveals the necessity for future research on international migration to test the sensitivity of estimated effects to changes in the construction of migration flows.

JEL Classification: F22, J61, O15, Q54, Q56

Suggested Citation

Berlemann, Michael and Haustein, Erik and Steinhardt, Max Friedrich, From Stocks to Flows – Evidence for the Climate-Migration-Nexus. IZA Discussion Paper No. 14450, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3865474 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3865474

Michael Berlemann (Contact Author)

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Erik Haustein

Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg ( email )

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Max Friedrich Steinhardt

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