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International migration decisions and costly information acquisition
[Migrations internationales et acquisition d' informations]

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  • Simone Bertoli

    (CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne)

  • Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
  • Lucas Guichard

Abstract

International migration decisions and costly information acquisition Migrants are confronted with the uncertainty about the returns that the might enjoy in the various destinations, and they can decide to gather information in order to reduce this uncertainty. Including costly information acquisition in the location-choice problem that migrants face allows us to refine our understanding of the pro-cyclical character of international migration flows. Read in french(/toutes-les-actualites/zoom-sur-la-recherche/migrations-internationales-et-acquisition-dinformations-218587.kjsp?RH=1505391225734#/admin) The decision about whether and where to migrate is portrayed as an investment decision that reflects a

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  • Simone Bertoli & Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga & Lucas Guichard, 2020. "International migration decisions and costly information acquisition [Migrations internationales et acquisition d' informations]," Post-Print hal-03514063, HAL.
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