Abstract
Examining the relationship between migration and inequality based on the data from 2000 to 2022 in 70 countries using various econometric techniques shows that most of the estimated results are statistically insignificant. The first reason is the lack of consensus across common inequality measurements, including the Target 10.1 method and inclusive inequality approach, which concentrate on the bottom 10 percent of the population. The second factor is the heterogeneous migration structure among countries. And the other one is that the migration scale accounts for quite a relatively small share of the population. The noneconometric empirical analyses show that although the top ten purely receiving migration countries account for more than 63 percent of world immigration, their average annual immigration ratios are just less than 0.44 percent of their population. In the opposite direction, the top ten sending major migration countries account for more than 55 percent of the total emigration and also only account for less than 0.21 percent of their population. These proportions indeed do not have a considerable effect on the implementation of SDG 2 and SDG 10 in developing countries in particular and in the world in general. This implies that developed countries should not prevent immigration flows from developing countries just because of concern about the increasing unemployment rate of natives caused by immigrants. Instead, governments should focus on security and moral issues. One of the most urgent problems is preventing the threat of dead or missing migrants on their routes before reaching their destinations.
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Presentation Type
Theme
2024 Special Focus—The World on the Move: Understanding Migration in a New Global Age
KEYWORDS
Extreme poor, Income inequality, Migration, Missing migrants, Moral issue
