Civicness Drain*

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Michaeli, Moti; Casari, Marco; Ichino, Andrea; De Paola, Maria; Marandola, Ginevra; Scoppa, Vincenzo
• 署名单位: University of Haifa; University of Bologna; IZA Institute Labor Economics; European University Institute; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Calabria
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueac068
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 323-354
• 关键词: risk attitudes; labor migration; unemployment; preferences

摘要

Migration may cause, not only a brain drain, but also a 'civicness' drain, leading to a poverty trap. Using migration choices of southern Italian high-school students classified as civic if not cheating in a modified die-roll experiment, we uncover a key role of local civicness (average civicness in the class): a civicness drain is observed only at high and low local civicness. We rationalise this pattern with a model in which civic and uncivic types balance hope versus fear of migration outcomes, taking into account economic gains, risk preferences and their beliefs about being considered civic in the place of destination.