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Effects of the Geographical Distance on Economic Well-being: Evidence from Colombia with Emphasis on Displaced Population

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  • Henry Laverde-Rojas

    (Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, Bogotá, Colombia)

  • Juan C. Correa

    (Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, Bogotá, Colombia)

Abstract

Forced migration and displacement are two well-known results of internal armed conflicts of nations. A fundamental relationship associated with these humanitarian movements is the one entailing the link between the geographical distance travelled by migrants and their economic well-being. As such a link remains unstudied in previous works, its empirical scrutiny is timely for migration studies. In this paper, we take the Colombian conflict as a case studyto analyze this relationship empirically. Using data from the Longitudinal Social Protection Survey (ELPS) -2012, we estimated a regression model, in which we tested different welfare measures and blocks of control variables. Contrary to what we expected, the results show that the elasticity of distance is positive and that it does not determine welfare outcomes for the displaced population.

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  • Henry Laverde-Rojas & Juan C. Correa, 2020. "Effects of the Geographical Distance on Economic Well-being: Evidence from Colombia with Emphasis on Displaced Population," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 17(2), pages 1-16, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:17:y:2020:i:2:p:309-324
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v17i2.633
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