Chapter 2 Informational Cascades and the Decision to Migrate

We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same location tend to choose the same foreign location. Thus, informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network-externalities explanation of the same phenomenon of migration clustering.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Epstein, Gil S.
Published in:	Migration and culture. - United Kingdom : Emerald, ISBN 978-0-85724-154-2. - 2010, p. 25-44
Subject:	Herdenverhalten \| Herding \| Theorie \| Theory \| Informationsverhalten \| Information behaviour \| Migranten \| Migrants \| Soziales Netzwerk \| Social network \| Internationale Migration \| International migration \| Binnenwanderung \| Internal migration

Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1108/S1574-8715(2010)0000008008 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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