German Development Economics Conference 2024

Session

Parallel Session 5

24 May 2024, 09:00

Leibniz Universität Hannover

123. Cultural Similarity and Migration: New evidence from a gravity model of migration

Tobias Grohmann (University of Groningen)

24/05/2024, 09:00

Migration Economics

Parallel Session

Theory suggests that cultural similarity of countries increases migration flows between them. This paper brings best practices from the trade gravity literature to migration and tests this prediction. Using time-varying and time-invariant similarity variables based on religion, language, genetics, and the World Values Survey, I estimate a theory-consistent gravity model on a panel of...

211. Is intent to migrate irregularly responsive to recent German policy adjustments?

Maximiliane Sievert (RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research)

24/05/2024, 09:30

Migration Economics

Parallel Session

We investigate the extent to which asylum policies that aim to deter individuals from migrating irregularly in fact do so. We specifically consider effects of Germany's recent and high-profile asylum policy adjustments, which include accelerated asylum decision processes, the prospect of asylum processing sites outside of Europe, the introduction of a payment card to replace cash benefits, and...

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24/05/2024, 10:00

58. Income and Migration: Evidence from a Century of Windfall Income Shocks

Sebastian Leue (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg)

Migration Economics

Parallel Session

This article studies the effect of windfall income shocks on emigration, conditionally on economic development. The theory of relative income differences between countries assumes that migration decreases with economic development. A growing literature, however, supports the existence of a mobility transition, promoting an inverse U-shaped relationship between income and migration. We provide...