Practice question · Put in order
Arrange the stages of the migration hump as income at origin rises.
- Emigration rates climb as capacity catches up with aspiration
- At high income levels the incentive to leave weakens and emigration rates fall
- Networks established by early movers lower costs and sustain the flow
- At very low incomes almost no household can finance an international move
- Rising income, schooling and connectivity increase both the desire and the means to move
Hints
- The sequence begins with an inability to move rather than with a lack of reasons.
- The turn downward comes only at high income, long after the rise.
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- At very low incomes almost no household can finance an international move
- Rising income, schooling and connectivity increase both the desire and the means to move
- Emigration rates climb as capacity catches up with aspiration
- Networks established by early movers lower costs and sustain the flow
- At high income levels the incentive to leave weakens and emigration rates fall
Why
The policy conclusion is uncomfortable and well established: development assistance aimed at reducing departures operates on the rising limb of this curve for decades. That does not make the assistance wrong; it makes the stated objective wrong, and confusing the two has produced a great deal of disappointed policy.
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