Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272535 
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Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15908
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
social preferences
relative deprivation
risk-laden migration
JEL: 
D81
D91
F22
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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