The concept of environmental migrants occurs frequently in the policy debate, in particular with regard to climate change and the incidence of such migration in low-income countries. This article reviews the economic studies of environmentally induced migration. It includes recent empirical...

The concept of environmental migrants occurs frequently in the policy debate, in particular with regard to climate change and its incidence on low-income countries. This paper reviews the economic studies of environmentally-induced migration. It includes the recent empirical analyses that try to...

We match migration data from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological indicators of climate variability, based on the standardized...