TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Stark, Oded
        TI  - Risk-laden Migration as a Response to Relative Deprivation: A Hypothesis
        PY  - 2023/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15908
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15908
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - risk-laden migration
KW  - relative deprivation
KW  - social preferences
        ER  -