Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/146455 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-659
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
Migration is one of the strategies used by populations to adapt to natural shocks and also to respond to economic policies. Climate change will probably have an impact on the productivity of factors and on the health of the population of the Latin America and Caribbean region, triggering migrations. In addition, policies aimed at reducing emissions (like carbon taxes) will change relative prices and the remuneration of factors and, in turn, will alter the allocation of labor between urban and rural areas. This paper explores the potential quantitative relevance of those population movements using a CGE version of the Harris-Todaro model. Two paradigmatic cases are considered: i) domestic or internal migrations, focusing on the case of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and ii) international migrations, analyzing the displacement of population from Bolivia and Paraguay to Argentina.
Subjects: 
Migration
Climate change
CGE
Argentina
Sao Paulo
JEL: 
C68
J61
R13
R23
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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