Informational cascades and decision to migrate

Gil S. Epstein

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:	Migration \| informational cascades \| herd behavior \| xenophobia \| network externalities \| Wohnstandort \| Residential location \| Informationsverhalten \| Information behaviour \| Theorie \| Theory \| Migranten \| Migrants \| Herdenverhalten \| Herding \| Soziales Netzwerk \| Social network

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Epstein, Gil S. *1964-*. Informational cascades and decision to migrate. - Bonn : IZA, 2002. - 21 S

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