Moving to Greenland in the face of global warming

Moving to Greenland in the face of global warming / Klaus Desmet & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Vox, 16 January 2013

http://www.voxeu.org/article/moving-greenland-face-global-warming

There are two ways to deal with climate change: mitigation and adaptation. This column argues that in order to adapt, we need to take another look at an age-old coping mechanism: migration. Indeed, if overall hotter temperatures lower productivity in hot regions but raise productivity in what are currently cooler regions, the negative economic effects of climate change are likely to stem from frictions preventing the movement of people and goods. Without these frictions, adapting to climate change becomes that much easier. Climate change policy ought to aim at alleviating mobility frictions…


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