Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate

We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of the same phenomenon. The relation between social tensions and herd behavior is observed when local populations are xenophobic.

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Year of publication:	2002
Authors:	Epstein, Gil S.
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	Wohnstandort \| Migranten \| Informationsverhalten \| Soziales Netzwerk \| Theorie \| Migration \| informational cascades \| herd behavior \| xenophobia \| network externalities

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Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 445
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	845021176 [GVK] hdl:10419/21511 [Handle]
Classification:	J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; F22 - International Migration
Source:	EconStor

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